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That just means a high percentage of the area is used for grazing, but I believe OP was asking how much of the total meat produced (by weight?) comes from grazing.

I think that's exactly what Canada's federal carbon tax is, and even so it's wildly unpopular unfortunately.

Really? Because it's used in so many fields there should be something interesting there one would think. Of the top of my head:

Defense, agriculture, home automation, industrial automation, finance, automotive, oil&gas, space resarch, robotics. The list goes on!

I think the proprietary toolchain stuff is also changing, but slowly.

I mean you totally can, in eastern Europe. But you're missing the point of the article, which is that Europeans supposedly enjoy a more 'rich' life in other ways than material goods. Although I do not fully agree, most of Europe is not that different.

I don't get it, doesn't this just say that more rich/educated people live in the suburbs than urban areas? How is that an economic advantage or 'outperforming' urban neighborhoods?

I thought it has been shown that suburbs cost a lot more per capita in public services like roads but this is heavily subsidized by more the efficient urban areas.

Toronto suburbs

I moved from the Netherlands to Canada and still bike to a lot of places. While I of course expected the lack of infrastructure, I did not fully expect the amount of hate I would be getting.

People here see you as some idiot who is playing with his toy while `serious` people are driving. They yell at you to get on the sidewalk, get off the road, that you don`t pay `road tax` (wtf), some homophobic shit. Canadians are so nice otherwise, but not on the road.

But hopping around on one leg is obviously less efficient, slower and maybe even unhealthy for your joints etc. Is a vegetarian diet less efficient or healthy?

It is limiting your choices in restaurants obviously, but suppose you live in some vegetarian community. Is this community limiting its potential? While if you live in a community that exclusively hops around on one leg, the answer is obviously yes, for the first example I'm not sure.

So then it's a nature/nurture kind of discussion. Do you think some people are genetically unable to stop eating meat? Personally, I think your tastes will adapt, i.e. it wouldn't feel like denying yourself anything after a while. But maybe it's different for some people.

Also commercials and just society around you influences your cravings. I think if you would grow up somewhere where there is no dairy for example, you would not crave it.

We evolved to adapt to our environment and we are not some kind of 'final form' that we are stuck with forever, we are still evolving. And people are able to extract nutrients from plants just fine. Also the two incisors do not have to determine anyone's diet. Now if you don't want to be be a vegetarian fine but don't tell me it's impossible because that's just not true.

But we also evolved to have a large cerebral cortex that allows us to make decisions that go against certain impulses because we are able to see the bigger picture. We evolved to conserve energy when possible but we exercise anyway because we know that if we don`t it will be detrimental to our health.

And many people are still healthy while on a vegetarian diet so it is possible.

You mean President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?

Maybe some of them, like in tight loops. But the most difficult code to understand for me is Matlab scripts written by physicists, naming variables a,b,c or i,ii,iii etc. Variables with longer lifespan should have more explicit names in my opinion.

Biked all my life in the Netherlands, now in (suburbs of) Toronto.

It's completely different here, I wear a helmet, go much faster, have a much nicer bike, have to pay more attention and would never ride drunk.

I still take it over sitting in traffic any day.

This is definitely my dream! Unfortunately I work in embedded which is especially hard to find remote work in (I`m guessing?). So I`m thinking about switching to more high-level work, maybe back end web development, I can at least leverage Linux experience.

This is what I do. I use HERE WeGO for offline maps, check messages when there's wifi. Saves a lot of money too! Never experienced problems so far. I think it's easier when you never had a data plan, going 'back' might be tough as you've changed your habits to rely on a data plan.