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if you stopped eating meat · one person, one year · world average · order of magnitude
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.
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=if%20you%20stopped%20eating%20meat" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · if you stopped eating meat"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- 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.
- range
- roughly ±50%: households, grids and countries differ widely
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- a world-average person. your number depends on where you live and how you already live; the country layer will narrow it. the ranking between actions is far more robust than any single figure.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-110 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0