What's worse, flying 1 million miles or eating meat over 35 years?

Question

in terms of impact on green house gases

Answer 1

I think flying your meat for a million miles over a 35year spread would have a greater impact. Especially when you hit the ground.

Answer 2

You've given no parameters with which to answer the question.  What type of impact.  And you make the assumption that both or either are in some way harmful.  Do we know this to be true?

Answer 3

If you try to take my beef, you will find out, unless you are 1 million miles away.

Answer 4

You must eat meat to save the environment to get rid of all those methane emitters.

1) Eat sheep

2) Eat cows

3) Charge sheep and cows to pay carbon credits

Answer 5

Eating meat for 35 years -- hands down.

Answer 6

We do not know how much meat the individual may be eating, only the period over which it is eaten.

But, given a finite emissions limit, so that one must die when one runs out of emissions credits, we might chose to fly very little and have an occasional feast of meat.

If your intention was to encourage us all to fly more often and exterminate meat animals, I do not think this proposition will fly.

But if you really want to reduce the number of animals living, you might buy up the food they need to eat, and put it into storage where they can not get it. The matter is in your hands, so go do it.

Answer 7

Flying in what? A prop plane, or a jet? Commercial or private?

Eating what kind of meat? Beef, pork, chicken, fish? And how much per day per year?

Without more detailed information, it is impossible to calculate the environmental impact of these particular actions.

Answer 8

definitely eating meat.  Though flying a million miles does have an effect, when taken into account that you are but one of hundreds inside a plane, the pollution you've caused by burning jet fuel is minor.  On the other hand eating meat you are directly involved in a number of global warming problems.  I think (do not quote me on this) but the average american eats 160 lbs of meat a year.  When you consider that livestock are responsible for nearly 18% of green house gas emmisions well...you do the math...

Answer 9

"in terms of impact on green house gases"

Hmmm...I don't get it.  Help me out.

Worse means it has more impact or less??

Does "impact" mean there are more or less greenhouse gasses?

Are greenhouse gasses bad or good??