“Which is better from an individual perspective: stop driving and take the bus to work, or cut food waste from 35% to 0%?”
The drawdown project seems to suggest that cutting food waste is better, because it’s rated third on its list whereas mass transit is 37th. However I hesitate to suggest people follow the guidance of Drawdown. I contacted them a few years ago (before the big media splash) with some questions about their methodology and got no reply. So I don’t feel willing to endorse (or condemn) their work.
Surely some food emits much more carbon than other food. Maybe we could just tax food based on how much carbon it emits? Then people won’t want to throw it away because they don’t want to waste their money. (And they’ll also substitute high-emission food for low-emission food.)
“Which is better from an individual perspective: stop driving and take the bus to work, or cut food waste from 35% to 0%?”
The drawdown project seems to suggest that cutting food waste is better, because it’s rated third on its list whereas mass transit is 37th. However I hesitate to suggest people follow the guidance of Drawdown. I contacted them a few years ago (before the big media splash) with some questions about their methodology and got no reply. So I don’t feel willing to endorse (or condemn) their work.
Surely some food emits much more carbon than other food. Maybe we could just tax food based on how much carbon it emits? Then people won’t want to throw it away because they don’t want to waste their money. (And they’ll also substitute high-emission food for low-emission food.)