Because some causes are significantly worse than others. If you want to have a big impact, you start with the big levers.

I'll give you an even better example than meat: golf courses in the US consume 2 to 100 times as much water as US datacenters depending on how you calculate.

How many golf-course-water-saving initiatives have you seen? Have they even tried anything at all?

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stuaxo an hour ago | parent [-]

AI data centres are a thing we are choosing to add, we could just not do that.

What benefit is the AI summary on search giving me Vs the actual search for a start.

	▲	alpineman an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Have a look at a graph of meat consumption in the US. We are also adding to that. That's my point, we don't need to add to meat consumption, we can make reductions.
	▲	busssard an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		what benefit is it giving to the search engine is what you have to ask. if you dont leave the page they get more ad-money
	▲	deaux an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Eating more meat is a thing we are choosing to add, we could just not do that. Flying more is a thing we are choosing to do, we could just not do that.