>If today everyone ditched their cars and used public transit and bikes, we shut down the airlines, and became vegan we'd be most of the way there.
One of these things is not like the others: shutting down airlines is an actual regulatory action. The others are lifestyle choices (and for what it's worth, I overwhelmingly just use public transit and my bike).
>Switch to organic farming and cradle-to-cradle manufacturing would almost surely get us the rest of the way there.
I'd like it if you could explain "cradle-to-cradle manufacturing", but I'm very skeptical that organic farming would actually help. Last I heard, even when you account for the subsidies paid to make industrial farming cheap, organic farming is still more resource-intensive than industrial farming.
Further, again, last I heard, lifestyle changes on the part of individuals have far less impact on resource usage than policy changes in major industries.
Really the type of farming you need is permaculture and forest gardening, and implementing these literally everywhere that humans live. That is, in my opinion, the best type of farming that is also sustainable. "Organic" farming is still just as bad for the environment and soil as regular farming.
One of these things is not like the others: shutting down airlines is an actual regulatory action. The others are lifestyle choices (and for what it's worth, I overwhelmingly just use public transit and my bike).
>Switch to organic farming and cradle-to-cradle manufacturing would almost surely get us the rest of the way there.
I'd like it if you could explain "cradle-to-cradle manufacturing", but I'm very skeptical that organic farming would actually help. Last I heard, even when you account for the subsidies paid to make industrial farming cheap, organic farming is still more resource-intensive than industrial farming.
Further, again, last I heard, lifestyle changes on the part of individuals have far less impact on resource usage than policy changes in major industries.