YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.
Red meat has a huge carbon footprint because cattle requires a large amount of land and water.
https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption
Demand for steaks and burgers is the primary driver of Deforestation:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/marcel-gomes-interview
If you don't have a car and rarely eat red meat, you are doing GREAT 🙌🙌 🙌
Sure, you can drink tap water instead of plastic water. You can switch to Tea. You can travel by train. You can use Linux instead of Windows AI's crap. Those are great ideas. But, don't drive yourself crazy. If you are only an ordinary citizen, remember that perfect is the enemy of good.
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Woah, didn't know about cheese (although makes sense), coffee and chocolate.
Why do coffee and chocolate have such an impact?
because this is per kilogram, not per serving. you don't eat a kilogram of chocolate in a day
Although if you regularly eat a kilo of red meat a day, you should probably talk to your doctor about those blood spots when you wipe your arse.
True, but still
Why is it so much worse than other plant-based foods on per-kilogram basis?
It's mostly an artefact from how we measure it.
Chocolate demand is rising, which means cocoa demand is rising. It grows best in really warm places, where there's plenty of readily available mountainous land that's currently covered by old growth forest. They farm cocoa very unsustainably, by illegally logging the land, growing beans for 5 to 8 years, and moving on (following the illegal loggers). We've decided to place the CO2 impact on the cocoa, not the wood though, probably due to lobbying.
That land use change drives climate impact of chocolate. Milk drives the rest.
Makes sense, thought about this.
Coffee and chocolate do not grow where you live. It needs to travel the oceans. (Unless you live in a country where it grows)
Ocean travel us very fuel efficient, and also bananas don't seem to have the same effect despite also coming from afar.