Where’s the beef?
Where’s the beef?
- June 6, 2014
- Research by Nathan Fiala, economics Ph.D. alumnus, is featured by Isla Earth June 6, 2014
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From Isla Earth:
Economist Nathan Fiala of the University of California, Irvine has a beef...about
beef. Specifically, he's concerned about the impact producing beef has on warming
the atmosphere. How much impact? All-told, producing a pound of beef generates the
equivalent of 14.8 pounds of carbon dioxide: more than 36 times the amount emitted
by producing asparagus… What can be done? Fiala says for one thing, we could all beef
up a bit on our understanding. So he's created a "Greenhouse Burgers" web site that
features a burger impact calculator.
Audio link available at http://www.islaearth.org/show.php?_a=vs&_sid=1402038000.
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