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How much co2 is coming from electric energy, food and transportation? One should in general switch over to clean power sources. One way to cut down on ones ow

by acd 10y ago

How much co2 is coming from electric energy, food and transportation? One should in general switch over to clean power sources. One way to cut down on ones own carbon emissions is to stop eating beef as cows release a lot of methane. km https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up-beef-reduce-carbon-footprint-more-than-cars https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-u... http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/foodkCal1.gif http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fo... https://priceofmeat.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/b8850198-f130-62ec-f2a7324de64fecca_21.jpg?w=500 https://priceofmeat.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/b8850198-f13... http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/foodprint5.gif http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fo... In Sweden one uses 8000kwh of electricity per year. 58g/kwh = 464000grams, 464kg co2. Average car co2 emissions around 120g/km. Average distance driven here around 15000km. 12015000=1800000grams 1800kg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_consumption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_cons... Co2 emissions of meat 13300g/kg, average meat consumtion 80kg. 8013300=1064000grams 1060kg of co2 from meat. adding the above. 464kg+1800kg+1060=3324kg, still missing some to add up to per capita consumption. What co2 source is missing? Co2 emission per capita of Sweden 4.6 ton, 4600kg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... Sustainable co2 per capita 1.7tones. I am over consuming 2900kg of co2. Stop driving car and stop eating meat reduces emissions about 2800kg.

walterstucco 10y ago
yeah… ok… right… I'm very sad that so many people are obsessed with cults nowadays
- Dylan16807 10y ago
  Would you care to elaborate on that?
  - walterstucco 10y ago
    Of course: there's a cult that spreads the false belief that CO2 emission and eating beef are correlated. Some people in the cult are probably paid to spread this myth, while the majority of them they are just simple persons believing in the power of individuals, "one person can change the world" and other similar bullshit.
    - Dylan16807 10y ago
      That's a pretty extreme way to react to a false belief. And there's no way it's not true at all. Harvesting cow feed uses fuel. So if you're saying the CO2 from that is negligible, what's the real amount?
tehwalrus 10y ago
Not eating beef will not reduce your "carbon emmisions" (except for transport etc, which would presumably be substituted). They will reduce your "greenhouse gas emissions" though.
- davedx 10y ago
  Methane is a carbon molecule
  - tehwalrus 10y ago
    But a combustible, rather than an oxidised, one. Incidentally, while searching for a reference to the assertion that CO2 is and methane is not included in a carbon footprint, I found the opposite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint (Methane emmisions are expressed in terms of the equivalent CO2 effect and added with actual CO2, the unit is then written as CO2e.) My original quibble is therefore much less important.

by acd 10y ago

walterstucco 10y ago

yeah… ok… right… I'm very sad that so many people are obsessed with cults nowadays

Dylan16807 10y ago
Would you care to elaborate on that?
- walterstucco 10y ago
  Of course: there's a cult that spreads the false belief that CO2 emission and eating beef are correlated. Some people in the cult are probably paid to spread this myth, while the majority of them they are just simple persons believing in the power of individuals, "one person can change the world" and other similar bullshit.
  - Dylan16807 10y ago
    That's a pretty extreme way to react to a false belief. And there's no way it's not true at all. Harvesting cow feed uses fuel. So if you're saying the CO2 from that is negligible, what's the real amount?

tehwalrus 10y ago

Not eating beef will not reduce your "carbon emmisions" (except for transport etc, which would presumably be substituted). They will reduce your "greenhouse gas emissions" though.

davedx 10y ago
Methane is a carbon molecule
- tehwalrus 10y ago
  But a combustible, rather than an oxidised, one. Incidentally, while searching for a reference to the assertion that CO2 is and methane is not included in a carbon footprint, I found the opposite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint (Methane emmisions are expressed in terms of the equivalent CO2 effect and added with actual CO2, the unit is then written as CO2e.) My original quibble is therefore much less important.