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  • vatlark@lemmy.worldtoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldTourism is bad.
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    3 months ago

    Interesting idea…

    tl;dr it’s probably more like 1-6 years of burgers.


    This says

    That’s a total of 3.6-6.1 kg of CO2-equivalent per burger.

    This says New York to London:

    is equivalent to 587 kg CO2e

    So round trip would be 1174kg.

    1174/6.1 = 192

    1174/3.6 = 326

    So you need to not eat 192 - 326 burgers.

    The first source says Americans eat 1-3 burgers a week, so you might need to skip 2-6 years of burgers to equal the same pollution as your air travel.

    New York to Florida would be 1-3 years, roughly.