It may surprise you to learn that our diets account for up to twice as many greenhouse emissions as driving. One recent study suggested that the average US household’s annual carbon food-print is 8.1 tonnes of “equivalent CO2 emissions” or CO2eq (a measure that incorporates any other greenhouse gases produced alongside the CO2). That’s almost twice the 4.4 tonnes of CO2eq emitted by driving a 25-mile-per-US gallon (9 litres per 100 kilometres) vehicle 19,000 km – a typical year’s mileage in the US.
Then those wack jobs go on to say:
“As greenhouse gas emissions attract ever greater scrutiny and criticism, the fields of sustainable consumption and life-cycle carbon accounting have prompted academics to tally the greenhouse gas emissions of hundreds of products and manufacturing processes so …”
Who’s scrutiny and criticism?
Life cycle carbon accounting? Can you say “Psycho?”
Sustainable consumption? Is this another way of saying forced starvation? Wouldn’t that be like, maybe, …Genocide?
Now I see why those evil happy meal toys must go….. they promote consumption that just isn’t “sustainable”