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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I did some googling, not crosschecking sources, just some napkin math

Taking a passenger flight from NY to LA and back - 0.62 tons

Average american eats a 124kg of meat a year and 1 kg of beef (not counting other meats cause lazy) needs 100kg of CO2.

So a year of beef is equal to 20 roundtrips (exactly). Though the real number is probably a lot less since beef is the worst meat if you don't want CO2, then you'd need to remove the emissions from the vegan diet

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Its that 100kg factoring in the CO2 that is absorbed in growing the feed? Seems way too high per kg. (Yes widespread veganism is a requirement for managing climate change though. )

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Looks like it's CO2 equivalent, so it includes methane which will inflate the numbers a lot. This is a neat chart

Another thing to consider is that people get pretty upset that the Amazon is burning. No one mentions what it's being burned for though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ah i see then that makes sense actually.

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