Overall Assessment: ✔️This is a great but difficult action for most people and can't solve the U.S.' or world's emissions problem alone. Even just eating pork/chicken when you're indifferent can make a sizeable impact. We recommend trying to form this habit gradually (queue the cold turkey jokes).
✔️ Pass ➖ Neutral ❌ Fail
Likelihood |
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Reducing animal products in your diet will reduce your carbon footprint. |
Speed |
✔️ |
5 tons/year/person |
Changing your diet can have an instant impact on our emissions - but it is hard to make instant changes. |
Contribution |
✔️ |
25% |
Agriculture in the US contributed 25% of the US emissions. |
Extensibility |
✔️ |
100% |
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Ease |
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Changing your diet is hard - small changes like using pork or chicken instead of beef can have a large impact. |
Cost |
✔️ |
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Vegan and vegetarian diets can save you about 10-25% of your monthly grocery and restaurant budget. |
Scale |
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Trajectory |
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Creating demand for meat free products can help to limit the need for increased meat production (which also increases deforestation) - however a majority of the world's diets and cultures are already vegetarian. |
Definitions:
Likelihood - how likely is it to work?
Speed - how many tons does it remove each year, starting in the first year, for each unit?
Contribution - how much does this solution impact the US's footprint overall (%)?
Extensibility - how many people could this action be available to (% of US population)?
Cost - how much does it cost per ton of emissions avoided and what is the minimum cost to participate?
Scale - how much of the world's emissions could be mitigated by this solution?
Trajectory - Does this solution have the potential to create new technology that will help other countries avoid the same path as the US (increasing emissions with increasing quality of life)?
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