A study shows Australians would rather take other actions to help the environment than give up meat.
Participants cite a lack of vegetarian options when dining out, despite Australia having more than ever, as a barrier to the diet.
Researchers hope the study will highlight reasons behind people’s reluctance to reduce meat consumption.
So exactly the same as polling on alternatives to the Voice. Australians want vague solutions to problems they pretend to care about, but when you propose actual solutions: crickets.
The list of options participants were given:
Some of it is a bit less actionable then “eat less meat”, but they’re still pretty concrete.
Nothing short of totally abolishing the capitalist mode of production can be taken remotely seriously.
And that one certainly isn’t serious
i wonder how quickly capitalism would fall if every liberal who pretended to be against it but tut-tutted the idea of it being overthrown would just shut the fuck up
Whose pretending to be against it? I’m for tighly regulated capitalism, coupled with some public ownership of natural monopolies.
so you’re against capitalism
It must be nice and simple to see the whole world in black and white terms. You should definitely try getting to grips with nuance though. It makes things annoyingly complicated and messy, but is ultimately rewarding.
Publicly owned monopolies are antithetical to capitalism by definition but go off
Regulated capitalism is still capitalism
I wouldn’t hold my breath
The willingness seems pretty low on everything but “renewable sources” and recycling which requires the least effort from people.
There being some willingness to reduce meat is nice, but I’ve heard that line before (people rarely follow through in practice).
I guess there’s going to be some interpretation about what a high vs low result really is (like how a 6/10 rated game or movie is “low”). I personally thought the raw results would have been lower based on some of the doomposting elsewhere in the thread.
I have already done all these except #2. And yes - I mean that. I have changed my lifestyle over the past 10-15 years doing these things consciously.
But the voice was the vague “solution” to the problem - that was the problem.
Australia was and, despite the best efforts of the Yes campaign, continues to remain and egalitarian liberal democracy.