WeWork Bans Meat

Re:WeWork Bans Meat by Rebelgecko on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:23PM (#17528215)

Has anyone done the back of the envelope math on this? If you send an employee across the country and stop them from eating meat, does that offset the environmental damage of their flight?

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Re:WeWork Bans Meat by throw_away2 on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:09PM (#17528380)

This doesn't hold up at all.

Cross country flight: .61 metric tons = 1344 lbs (https://calculator.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx )

1 hamburger: 4 lbs (http://www.businessinsider.com/one-hamburger-environment-res... )

So, one flight is 336 hamburgers (in terms of CO2).

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Re:WeWork Bans Meat by fjsolwmv on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:20PM (#17528613)

Obviously not, but those factors are independent. They arent flying people out for the purpose of finding vegetarian meals.

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