Open the Future: Cheeseburger Footprint: The Video

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What’s the carbon footprint of a cheeseburger? Jamais Cascio of Open the Future, calculates there are 3.6-6.1 kg of CO2-equivalent per burger. Depending on whether you believe the statistics that say we eat one hamburger per week or three hamburgers — that means hamburgers generate somewhere beetween 65,250,000 to 195,750,000 metric tons of CO per year in the United States. To put the amount of CO2 emissions into perspective, cheeseburger emissions total more than all the SUV’s (approximately 16 million) in the United States.
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