0.8 → 800 000 tonnes co2e about 0.8 tonnes of co2e. about 10 land animals and 300 from the sea. about 0.4 hectares of land and 600,000 litres of water. a year, at the world average; a us or australian eater, about double.
method per-person, per-year estimate from the cited study (Wynes & Nicholas 2017; Poore & Nemecek 2018; Vanham et al. 2013), 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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