To anyone wondering, no, rice is not hurting the climate. Unlike many water-intense crops, people are not trying to grow rice in the middle of the American desert.
this post was submitted on 24 May 2026
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...unless there's a profit to be made. Hype rice into the next superfood and watch people grow it in the desert.
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SHHHH don't give them any ideas
Preach. It's a far cry from almonds lol
I would love to see how this sort of online propaganda goes over in the East Asian part of the world. Or just Eastern part of the world in general.
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This but unironically.
Every environmental activist out there who spends their afternoons shaming people online for going about their most mundane, domestic activities ("how dare you use a hot cycle for your single load of laundry!?") are actively complicit in enabling and normalizing billionaires' continued ravaging of the earth's resources. It keeps everyone distracted from the actual problem and trapped in an "us vs them" mentality where the public can never collectively unite to turn the heat around on those in power.
I'm not cutting my decompression-after-surviving-another-day-in-dystopia shower short while Musk installs another infinity pool in his Arizona summer home lol, so stop asking.
Ever since data centers have begun consuming staggering amounts of water and electricity while providing unprecedented amounts of pollution/toxic waste/noise/more, I've really given up feeling responsibility for making the world better/cleaner. I'm not going to change my behaviors--I'll still recycle and be careful about energy/water consumption, but the advent of the data center threw a similar "fuck you" as when i discovered how little the recycling of plastic bottles actually makes any impact (and that we were basically sold a glaring lie + promise by major bottlers like coke and pepsi)
"We won't be fooled again" 🥴
Plastic recycling is actually picking up as the economics make more sense.
But its still better to use/buy things in more recyclable containers...
If we can ever get rid of the capitalists, we could switch to compostable containers for most or many goods. They've already been invented; they're just not seen as profitable to implement on a wide scale.
That's what really sucks about getting an education is being exposed to all the alternatives that have been created over the decades in many fields but we're just kinda put on the shelf because the capitalists said "but what about number go up?"
There is so much shit we could change and have everyone be better off for it yet we don't cause it won't make number don't go up.
I work for a company that is one of the top worldwide plastic polluters. We use plastic in packaging. I was in an astonishing series of meetings recently, organized by the global corporate office for legal, R&D and supply chain that went like this:
First, we had a series of trainings about climate change that had none of the typical bullshit. They straight explained that the whole idea of recycling is stupid and shifts focus to the part where it makes the least impact, that carbon offsets don't really work, that we can't rely oil running out because the environment and the economy will collapse way sooner than that will happen.
The second part was I guess appealing to people's emotions by showing devastating effects that humans have caused already, for example there was a picture of starved baby bird that died because the parents were feeding it plastic garbage from the ocean.
The third part was practical plans to make various industries sustainable, the point was that drastic measures are required for most companies and that the worst offenders are not consumer-facing so relying on public pressure will not work.
The fourth part was about practical challenges that are not solved yet in our company and everyone got a list of goals they should achieve by 2030. Removing the plastic entirely was one of the goals.
They actually talked about the number go up problem and how we should lobby for extremely strict sustainability legislation. I'm now personally responsible for implementation of glass or aluminum packaging that should be returned and reused. I even became a bit optimistic about the future, because typically I imagine my kids (if I had any) in 30 years living in a fascist state and their job is manning the machine guns against waves of migrants from Africa where the environment collapsed and crops failed.
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Remember, the 'carbon footprint' metric was invented by British Petroleum's PR team.
And while you're at it, remember that BP was formerly named the Anglo Persian Oil Company, which held a commercial monopoly on the oil extraction of Iran. It was majority owned by the british government and served to funnel the oil wealth back to London. When Iran's then democratically elected government wanted to nationalize the company, the UK and US fomented a coup in 1953 and installed a constitutional monarchy with a dictator Shah that would ally with the west. That's why they have F-4 tomcats, and fun fact, he was the one who commissioned mercedes to create the G-Wagon. Eventually resentment against the government would lead to the Iranian revolution in 1979 and the hostage crisis which would create the conditions that lead to today.
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Because it's all a lie, nothing to fix there, it's their way to impose more surveillance on people, it's always about surveillance and control
Oh, you like eating? That's destroying the climate you bozo. Meanwhile some billionaire is flying their private jet a town over to get a massage.
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Maybe, if you're only talking about individual people, but the big polluters are corporations, not people. That's where the focus should be.
Stopping overproduction is what we should focus on.
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Mama mama look, it's billionaire eco fascist propaganda. they don't care about the environment, they just want people to starve.
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Until those most capable of reducing their footprint, actually do it, I'm not doing shit. This isn't my problem to fix and I didn't cause it and I'm not sacrificing anything else to fix the rich man's problems. I ain't fighting his wars, I ain't fixing his mistakes, I ain't sacrificing for his future. The rich have more than enough to fix this shit. If they don't then maybe our species isn't meant to survive given we keep producing leaders like them.
Your existence is an inconvenience... but the billionaires also need you! may be the new, corporate version of Original Sin™️, now powered by a.i.™️ on the blockchain!
This reminds me of he time I got arrested for peeing in the lake right next to the chemical company dumping waste in via a 26 inch Dia. Pipe.
You peeing is indecent AND pollution. That heavy metal dumping is just pollution /s
I'd rather watch somebody peeing than watch what's coming out of the pipe. Indecent is a judgement call.
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There's actually a really interesting story here. Rice production, in addition to deforestation, has been linked to starting global warming about 5000 years ago. While the climate should have been naturally cooling due to decreased insolation, the methane released from the start of intensive rice agriculture and the CO2 from deforestation prevented this. Here's a summary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_anthropocene
P.S. fuck capitalists
The article just says that it was due to the rise of agriculture, not rice in particular.
Edit: and fuck capitalists
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Rice is bad for the environment, but you can scarf down that two pound grass fed steak without worrying. /S
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My bowl of rice comes from one prefecture over. I'd buy more locally if I could, but I prefer brown rice to white and they locally polish basically everything.
Always trying to blame the common person.
No rice, no meat, no tree nuts, only some vegetables. Environmentalist austerity politics really keep the movement down.
Am just gonna stick to blaming LLM hosting data centers for hurting the environment. (As of 2026)
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