> "Do you know how modern cereal and vegetable farming is carried out?"
I do know. The food I eat is not, in fact, produced that way.
I do not need or want absolution. But I know my carbon footprint is a tiny fraction of yours. You are, in other words, personally responsible for overwhelmingly more suffering in the world than I know, by direct experience, is necessary for your level of comfort.
> I do know. The food I eat is not, in fact, produced that way.
Maybe. Maybe not grown in a way that's sustainably capable of feeding the world's population or even accessible to many.
> I do not need or want absolution. But I know my carbon footprint is a tiny fraction of yours.
You think it is, I'm sure. And you believe yourself to have the moral high ground.
> You are, in other words, personally responsible for overwhelmingly more suffering in the world than I know, by direct experience, is necessary for your level of comfort.
And so are you. Unlike your assumptions about my carbon footprint, I actually do know that with certainty because you are posting this message here which consumes energy. What's more your level of comfort itself is almost certainly far beyond most people on earth, and far beyond what you need to barely keep yourself alive, therefore you have made choices for your own comfort at the expense of many other life forms.
Yet I do not desire it.
> "Do you know how modern cereal and vegetable farming is carried out?"
I do know. The food I eat is not, in fact, produced that way.
I do not need or want absolution. But I know my carbon footprint is a tiny fraction of yours. You are, in other words, personally responsible for overwhelmingly more suffering in the world than I know, by direct experience, is necessary for your level of comfort.