New research shows white people deserve the most blame for how their eating habits impact climate change, and argues new policies like the Green New Deal need to take race into account to save the planet.
According to their analysis, the researchers found that white individuals produced an average of 680 kilograms of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide each year that can be directly linked to what they ate and drank, while Latinx individuals produced 640 kilograms of carbon dioxide and blacks produced 600 kilograms of carbon dioxide each year.
In other words, white people supposedly eat more “environmentally intense” foods, like apples, potatoes, beef and milk, Bozeman said.
“While the difference may not seem enormous, these numbers are per individual, and when you add up all those individuals, it’s very clear that whites are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gases emitted as a result of their food choices,” he said.
“Whites tend to drink more water and milk,” Bozeman explained. “Milk itself requires a lot of water to produce when you consider livestock cultivation, so that is part of what we think is pushing their water impacts higher.”
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