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if you gave up dairy: what it is worth, in numbers

if you gave up dairy · one person, one year · world average · order of magnitude

0.3 → 300 000 tonnes co2e about 0.3 tonnes of co2e a year, about 100,000 litres of water, and a share of a bobby calf: a dairy farm’s male calf, killed young because he cannot make milk. see: bobby calves.

method per-person, per-year estimate from the cited study (Poore & Nemecek 2018; Mekonnen & Hoekstra 2012), 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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