Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World

Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by JamesBarney on Monday June 24, 2019 @03:57PM (#20267784)

People killed by climate change 250,000/year

Assuming switching to chicken reduces carbon by 12%, assuming carbon responsible for 250,000 death then meat consumption is responsible 30,000 ppl/year

Number of cows in u.s. 30,000,000 for 3% of global market

US market responsible for 900 deaths / year 140 chickens / cow(calorie wise)

estimated 20 years of life lost per death

18,000 QALY for 4.1 billion more chickens

Rough estimate of 2.3 minutes of human life gained per chicken raised

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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by jogjayr on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:15AM (#20282581)

Thanks for doing that calculation. I really appreciate that you put in that much work.

> People killed by climate change 250,000/year

Is that a current number? Or a projection of what might happen with 2 degree or 4 degree Celsius increase in temperature?

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