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The biggest energy expenditure and as a result CO2 emission source per person is food. You like having peaches in February in Michigan? You like having meat 7 d
by IgorPartola 5y ago
The biggest energy expenditure and as a result CO2 emission source per person is food. You like having peaches in February in Michigan? You like having meat 7 days a week? Guess what: all the industrial agriculture and transportation of that meat from a thousand miles away nets you an energy expenditure of about 10kW 24/7. In theory the biggest lifestyle change you can make to save CO2 is to go vegan and buy local food at 2-5x the prices from local farmers or grow it yourself (which is a full time job).
- DoingIsLearning 5y ago> The biggest energy expenditure and as a result CO2 emission source per person is food? Do you have a source for this claim? All I have read until now points to a majority of individual emissions associated with vehicle emissions and Energy usage for Heating/Cooling houses/offices. I am all for a vegetarian lifestyle for animal welfare sake but I feel this focus on Agricultural emissions is misleading or at least misreported.
- lbriner 5y agoI think people get confused because of double-counting. If you move a load of produce in a truck, do the truck emmissions get counted as "transport" or "agriculture"? I guess depending on your angle, you could say either.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoLocal us not always good, tomatoes griwn un soain require less carbon than thise grown in uk because of greenhouses