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I can't answer on where to best find this data, but it is compounded by many industries. Particularly, manufacturing and the transportation of raw materials tha

I can't answer on where to best find this data, but it is compounded by many industries. Particularly, manufacturing and the transportation of raw materials that are transformed into products by other manufacturers and then distributed to distribution centers, and then again distributed to local regions and retailers. This, for every last little thing. If you want to talk just plastic bottles, we consume 1 million bottles a minute. In the summer, when working outside or when I used to work in smoldering hot factories, I would drink about 4 large sports drinks a day during an 8-12 hour shift (there were 2500+ employees and never shutdown). Now add just vehicle emissions. Everyone driving to and from work, or to buy all the things. You drive and purchase a banana. That banana probably traveled 2k-3k miles in fossil fuel powered transportation. It's a compounding problem, of all the things. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/26/million-plastic-bottles-minute-91-not-recycled/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace...

EGreg 9y ago
Don't forget all the factory farming and raising cattle to feed billions of people - methane emissions from cows are very significant.
- kqr 9y ago
  I had such an holy fuck moment and turned part-time vegetarian when I learned livestock are fed the very same vegetable protein I could eat. Couple this with the (probably false) rule of thumb that 90% of the energy is lost at each step in the food chain. The beef I eat could literally feed ten people if they ate the vegetable proteins instead[1], with nearly no loss of quality of life for me. It's very hard to rationalise eating large amounts of beef at that point. That said, I still do enjoy it at times, but as the expensive luxury it is, not an everyday staple. [1] If not directly, then in the long run by reduced emissions etc.

EGreg 9y ago

Don't forget all the factory farming and raising cattle to feed billions of people - methane emissions from cows are very significant.

kqr 9y ago
I had such an holy fuck moment and turned part-time vegetarian when I learned livestock are fed the very same vegetable protein I could eat. Couple this with the (probably false) rule of thumb that 90% of the energy is lost at each step in the food chain. The beef I eat could literally feed ten people if they ate the vegetable proteins instead[1], with nearly no loss of quality of life for me. It's very hard to rationalise eating large amounts of beef at that point. That said, I still do enjoy it at times, but as the expensive luxury it is, not an everyday staple. [1] If not directly, then in the long run by reduced emissions etc.