The carbon footprint of diet: what you eat and what it costs the climate
Food production accounts for approximately 26% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to Poore and Nemecek (2018) in Science. At the individual level, diet contributes an estimated 1.5–3.5 tons CO₂e per year for a typical American, with beef and dairy responsible for the majority of that total. The emissions intensity of food varies by more […]