Meanwhile, cargo ships burn bunker fuel with impunity.

Stop trying to pin responsibility for global warming on the little people. The rich created this disaster, and the rich are the only ones who can turn it around.

Unfortunately, they’d rather build themselves opulent underground shelters where they’ll hang out while the rest of humanity dies.

We’re screwed, there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves, and we may as well live it up and hope we check out before it gets really ugly.

Whilst generally I agree with you, I disagree with this defeatist mindset when it comes to eating meat.

I think you’re underestimating how big an impact the meat industry has on the climate, and you’re underestimating the power “regular people” have with regards to eating less.

The meat industry exists because we eat loads of it. If we eat less of it, the meat industry will become smaller as a capitalistic reaction.

And no, I’m not a vegan. I eat meat every day because (and this is not a valid excuse) I’m a bodybuilder and eating loads of chicken every day is an easy way to get protein. That said, I do believe that 200 years from now society will look back at our consumption of real meat as barbaric. Synthesised lab-grown meat will happen eventually, and sadly it’ll probably take that for society as a whole to change. Hopefully humanity will survive to see the day!

I think you’re underestimating how big an impact the meat industry has on the climate, and you’re underestimating the power “regular people” have with regards to eating less.

The meat industry exists because we eat loads of it. If we eat less of it, the meat industry will become smaller as a capitalistic reaction.

That would only delay the end of the world, not prevent it. It would be a huge and mostly senseless sacrifice.

Synthesised lab-grown meat will happen eventually

That seems highly unlikely. Synthetic meat was successfully made a decade ago, and then it disappeared from public view without a trace. It appears to have been a PR stunt, not a viable technology.