Reposted by Nicholas D Carter
Shifting half of Canada's red and processed meat to plant proteins: +8.7 months of life, -25% diet emissions, most of it from what you add. Personal swaps matter but stay above the climate boundary, so supply and institutions matter too.
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Partial substitutions of animal with plant protein foods in Canadian diets have synergies and trade-offs among nutrition, health and climate outcomes - Nature Food
Canada’s Food Guide recommends greater consumption of plant protein foods, but replacing animal with plant protein sources might have important consequences. Based on actual food intake values, this s...
![Fig. 1: Adoption of climate actions by their climate change mitigation potential. Average adoption rates and objective emission mitigation potentials in kilograms CO2e per capita and year of 34 individual-level climate actions aggregated across the three US samples included in the present research (n = 2,924; Supplementary Table 2). The data illustrate the negative relationship between the adoption of climate actions and their mitigation potential (r = −0.51, 95% CI [−0.72; −0.21], t(32) = −3.37, P = 0.002, one-sample t-test, two-sided, against r = 0). Only short labels of the climate actions are shown; see Supplementary Table 2 for full descriptions. EV, electric vehicle.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xqi5fsn7jmmss4ceqr5rhf7z/bafkreibfgayd7iq4ejswh7bgm62bdynsl56oegojv64h2muasdjugfz6uu)
