European researchers said Thursday that the the start of June saw global surface air temperatures rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time. That is the limit governments said they would try to limit global warming to at a 2015 summit in Paris.
0.1% of people switching to a plant based diet changes what, 0.00001% of global emissions?
It’s pointless. People don’t make changes on a large scale voluntarily. That’s the exact reason the carbon footprint meme exists. Government regulations need to block corporations from ever offering the goods and services that pollute so much, at such good prices that they have now. A global carbon tax is basically the only way to go.