Calculate Carbon With Your Calories
We can’t really know the true costs or impact of our lifestyles without drilling down to get WAY past the sales price.
Image by gsz via Flickr
Here’s a way to get a sense of how much carbon you are consuming with your meals, thanks to Bon Apetit’s Low Carbon Diet Calculator. Just click here, and then drag and drop your meals into the frying pan (what, no grill?).
Think how different consumer choices would be if prices reflected these sorts of costs. According to Raj Patel, in The Value Of Nothing, a burger (even if it wasn’t sandwiched between two deep-fried, honey glazed, donuts) would cost up to $200. That would cut carbon and obesity at the same time.
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