if you skipped meat one day a week: what it is worth, in numbers

0.11 → 110 000 tonnes co2e about 0.11 tonnes of co2e, 1.5 land animals and 45 from the sea, a year. a seventh of the yardstick.

method per-person, per-year estimate from the cited study (Wynes & Nicholas 2017), 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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