If we cared about the environment we would just stop buying coffee, chocolate and bananas.
Buying bananas has no relevance to climate. Minimise eating meat, minimise use of cars and planes, and get a green energy supplier. That cuts your carbon footprint by half (depending where you are and what you do)
Other measures don't do much
Can you explain why? All the bananas in my UK supermarket are flown from Africa.
> minimise use of cars and planes
This results in a paradox where locally grown food, if it needs additional lights, spraying, ploughing, etc. is worse for the environment than food grown in perfect climage and transported to you.
https://freakonomics.com/2011/11/14/the-inefficiency-of-loca...
It's probably still more efficient (both money-wise and GHG-wise) than growing bananas locally in UK; now that would need a lot of extra energy; but on the other hand it would be more efficient to eat food that normally grows locally in your climate instead of bananas.
All I am trying to say is that in the total carbon footprint of a person, they account for a miniscule part of the whole, and that things like a well insulated house, transport, etc. will be vastly more important
Focus on reducing fossil fuel usage.
>(1) The proposed effects on GHG emissions if people went meatless are overblown.
>(2) The claims about livestock’s water usage are misleading.
>(3) The claims about livestock’s usage of human edible feed are overblown.
>(4) The claims about livestock’s land use are misleading.
>(5) We should be fixing food waste, not trying to cut meat out of the equation.
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It’s not about anyone feeling superior.
Don't have children.