March 12, 2021
Combining efforts with its supply chain and emissions, the company projects that it will become climate positive around 2025. Photo by S and S Imaging on Shutterstock.
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by Gero Leson, to be published by Portfolio, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright 2021 by Gero Leson. The above is an affiliate link and we may get a small commission if you purchase from the site.
We now all know that, for global climate’s sake, we better minimize our "personal carbon footprint" — the amount of greenhouse gases we emit to the heavens while we consume, work, drive around, or just sit at home. We can shrink our footprint by using more efficient appliances, building better insulated homes, adjusting the thermostat, driving fuel- efficient or electric cars, eating organic food and much less meat, recycling our waste, and flying less. Yet much of our footprint originates further upstream: in the production of petroleum; the production and use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer; the burning of tropical forests for cattle grazing and growing animal feed; and farming of the grain, beans, and veggies we eat directly or indirectly as feed for cows, pigs, and chickens.