Comments by "Michael RCH" (@michaelrch) on "‘We haven’t faced anything like climate change before’ - Gaia Vince" video.

29:30 aaaargh what is this nonsense!! There is tons of protein in plants!! Ask cows, and pigs and chickens, and VEGANS!! We don't have to eat insects and algae. Just eat beans and tofu FFS!!
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The problem isn't that there are too many people. It's how our society, especially the global north, is designed to consume as much as possible and outsource the problems to the rest of the world. Our food system could use 1/4 as much land as it does if we didn't insist on eating meat and animal products but we demand beef, pork, chicken, cheese etc and so the rainforests are cut down to supply them. That's a choice, not a law of nature.
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Gaia, if it's our kids fixing this issue, everything is dead. And writing letters? FFS. Get a grip. We are 30 years late for writing letters. We need mass mobilisation in the streets and strategic attacks on fossil fuel infrastructure. Then we stand a chance.
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@Music5362 except nuclear power is the most expensive power we can get at scale. Albeit not this second due to insanely high gas prices. In the U.K. the strike price for the new Hinckley C station is about £166 per MWh and it's linked to inflation so by the time it's online in 2027 (assuming it isn't delayed again) it will cost about £190MWh. New offshore wind for 2025 is now £40/MWh. Less than a quarter of the price. Anyway there is no shortage of land if we just changed our diets. It people switched to plant-based diets, we would use less that a quarter the land we do for farming right now. That would end deforestation overnight and create the opportunity to sequester about 20-30 billion tonnes of CO2 per year for 30 years. These are figures from a study in the journal PLOS. Ending animal ag is the most powerful tool for actually getting our climate back and stops the 6th mass extinction.
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