carbon with yer fries: footprinting a cheeseburger
The average American eats about 150 cheeseburgers per year (via open the future).
What’s the global warming impact of all that?
Not just cooking the burger, but also growing the feed for the cattle, growing the produce, storing and transporting the components, and accounting for methane from cows.
Ahem: 7 pounds of emissions per quarter-pounder, that’s what.
That’s right, says It’s the kind of question we’ll be forced to ask more often as we pay greater attention to our individual greenhouse gas emissions.”
Bottom line: the overall CO2-equivalent emissions from all the cheeseburgers consumed in the US roughly equals the greenhouse output of 100,000 SUVs.
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