Обсуждение

Mike Sowden

27 июл., 14:36

It's really startling how much not eating beef would fix. (Via ourworldindata.org/food-choice-...)

dadonadyingplanet

27 июл., 14:49

Combine that with restrictions to flying (sorry Taylor Swift!) and maybe not quite ALL the sh*t will hit the fan.

Steven Arden

27 июл., 17:44

It would be interesting if you or they happen to have data on what portion food represents of an average person’s carbon burden? Say an average North American or person, despite how non average th at category may be compared with the full world population.

Steven Arden

27 июл., 17:50

Adjusting diet to minimize impact is a good idea and relatively simple to do. But to apply something like the Amdahl’s law concept, if a person’s carbon footprint is dominated by (say) personal transport, then food may not make so much difference.

Steven Arden

27 июл., 17:52

(I don’t actually know the relative size of diet vs other factors; after seeing this thread, I intent to do some reading on that)

Steven Arden

27 июл., 18:10

Quick approximate calculations based on that website says about 20-22 tonnes co2 equiv. per capita in Canada. 100 kg meat per capita. All beef with 60 kg ghg per kg would mean 6 tonnes, so with a more reasonable proportion perhaps 2-3 tonnes per year. Around 10-15%.

Steven Arden

27 июл., 18:14

Do those numbers look vaguely reasonable, for anyone who has real info? Obviously this is very rough, and may have mixed different units (co2 vs total ghg etc). It is higher than I would have guessed, suggesting some people can cut their personal ghg by maybe 5 or 10% from diet alone.

Pegdeg

27 июл., 14:46

It's nuts! #GedgieTheVeggie

gibber35

27 июл., 14:50

Wow.

Peter

27 июл., 22:29

But what is the percentage of the total greenhouse gas emissions that comes from the food supply chain. If it's only 5% for example, then eating beef isn't anywhere near as big a deal.

Mandalee

27 июл., 15:02

noooooo not my coffee

Mike Sowden

27 июл., 15:18

I know - that's one I can't give up. 😁 But I think cutting out a few other high-impact items gives us some leeway on some of the others - that'll still make a huge difference. (I'm 80% pescatarian already, but I just decided to cut out beef entirely.)

Mandalee

27 июл., 15:26

Cheese is my other sad surprise 😭 But yes, we have beef maybe once a fortnight (because my husband loves it) - the rest of the time is either fish, veggie, chicken or sometimes pork

Steven Arden

27 июл., 17:40

I’m significantly caffeitarian myself, would be very hard to give up! I wonder about the units though. If it shows per kg of beans (rather than the finished liquid coffee) then it is only 10g or so per cup. Even a couple a day won’t add up to say 250g of meat a day.

Steven Arden

27 июл., 17:41

And don’t get me started on the biased tea people who didn’t even list tea for comparison! (joking of course)

Per

27 июл., 17:38

Just wait until you hear about fossil fuel.

hippiechick54

27 июл., 14:53

I don't know about prices where you live but I haven't been buying beef for a long time because it's insanely expensive in the States. Two rib eye steaks weighing less than two pounds costs around $35.00!