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Measuring Climate Impact by Protein and Calories

Posted: Sun 16 Apr 2023 11:32 am
by deichman
This week's issue of The Economist has a great article on "Different Ways to Measure the Climate Impact of Food". Here's the link (if you're a subscriber):

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detai ... ct-of-food

And if not, I have attached a screenshot of the three graphs showing CO2 emissions as a function of food weight, protein content, and caloric content (normalized to a banana = 1.00).