if you ate half as much meat: what it is worth, in numbers

0.4 → 400 000 tonnes co2e about 0.4 tonnes of co2e, 5 land animals and 150 from the sea, a year.

method per-person, per-year estimate from the cited study (Poore & Nemecek 2018), world-average where the study allows; the million-people column is straight multiplication. 'for scale' divides by 0.8 t CO2e, the meat-free yardstick.

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