On driving factor is the (over)use of antibiotics in animal agriculture. It’s weird the article touches this issue in just one sentence…
“Over 70 percent of antibiotics sold in the United States are given to livestock, including cattle, which translates to significant human health impacts.”
“Unlike with human medicine, however, antibiotics are often fed to cattle as a preventative measure, rather than as a treatment.”
“Antibiotic resistance in cattle does not only affect the health of the cattle, it impacts people as well because many of the antibiotics given to cattle are also used in human medicine. Eating meat or consuming milk from an animal with antibiotic-resistant bacteria may infect a human with that same resistant bacteria”
Citations: National Geographic
Just like how in climate change is that we use plastic straws, don’t look at how 80% of the pollution is industrial and/or Chinese in origin.
Or in Canada where rents are so high in Vancouver and Toronto that they’re redefining budgeting for renters, from 1/3 to half and even 2/3rds instead of dealing with real estate speculation.
Are you saying China is responsible for 80% of emissions? That’s definitely false.
Badly written. 80% are industrial. They are, based on their public numbers, responsible for a third of the world’s CO2 though.
Their official numbers put them at number 1 CO2 emitter, and pollute more then next 5.
Well it just seems odd to fold together industrial and Chinese emissions. Nationally and by sector are two totally different ways of dividing up emissions.
Anyway China is a major source of emissions and deserves criticism for that but it doesn’t seem very relevant overall.
@Kbin_space_program @throws_lemy @LibertyLizard As pointed out elsewhere, it’s quite hypocritical to point to China to reduce emissions generated by manufacturing stuff for the West.
That was partially true more than a decade ago, since they could have had laws in place to prevent those emissions.
Now though they’re more making things for themselves, and any attempt on their part to declare themselves a “developing country” is a sham.
@Kbin_space_program @throws_lemy @LibertyLizard Or, you know, we could trace those emissions back to the source, which would land the blame squarely on the tons of US companies responsible.
Also, as an aside, why don’t you compare per capita emissions, since China has > 3 times the population of the US?
Because the ecosystem doesn’t care about pollution per capita.
Also, the reason the US is so high is because it refines most of the world’s oil.
Same reason Canada is so high. Alberta, by itself, is more than half of Canada CO2 emissions.
and even if it was true, guess why they have so much emissions! It’s to make products for us consumers in the west!
Yes although I think China is a wealthy and capable enough country at this point that we can expect them to start reducing emissions like most other countries. But they aren’t really attempting to do this, and deserve criticism for that. As do Westerners who uncritically buy products from them despite their deeply problematic production model.
Wasn’t there a whole thing about bacteriophage treatment and supplement to antibiotics?
Like, “if bacteria develop resistance to one it reduces resistance to the other!” kinda deal?
With and UV light, you know?
Maybe there’s some way to get those inside the body.
Or bleach apparently. lol.
