'You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food?
– Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local'
This was the most widely read @OurWorldInData article of the entire last year, written by @_HannahRitchie.https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local …
You should create a list of the most dangerous well-meaning misconceptions, e.g that the way to decrease the carbon footprint of your food is to eat food produced locally, that vaccines are dangerous, that the way to decrease poverty is to decrease economic inequality, etc.
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You guys are in a unique position to do this, with so many years' experience looking at so much data from so many different countries.
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and so many years of listening and responding to those well-meaning but dangerous misconceptions…
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That last one! Oh man lmao! Yes we should be fighting poverty by *increasing* economic inequality! Genius! What billionaire should I be signing my paycheck over to?
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Inequality measures the distribution of the existing pie. The pie has grown by orders of magnitude in the past few centuries. The USA 100 years ago had a real GDP per capita similar to Kenya today.
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The latest fashion on the far left is apparently not even to consider intentions.
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This would be amazing, seconded!
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Also that food is meaningful compared to other sources. Although ordering processed garbage plant based food in front of your peers does make for meaningful virtue signaling (at the expense of your health)pic.twitter.com/91aTxBTLuf
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There's more to food than the green segment: e.g. in the red one 'energy in ag' 'energy use in industry: food'. More importantly is the huge land use = 'carbon opportunity costs' (https://sci-hub.ee/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4 …) & part of the public health footprint - e.g. >40% of the world's adults are
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Would be interesting to see which are worst compared to the other, although rather apples and oranges. Still, in terms of QALYs some comparison may be possible.
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