As we are learning it incredibly hard to get people to change their habits and behaviors especially when it means their utility will take a hit. Getting people to drink less coffee is just not going to happen. The more of these types of articles I read the more I am starting to realize the importance of carbon removal to solving our collective problem.
Adding a specific tax for coffee and rising it by 1% every quarter would probably work in removing some consumption. And it would generate resources for the government.
The average human produces around 1kg of CO2 per day - from the article, that's equivalent to 4-6 cups of coffee. I assume larger people and more active people contribute significantly higher.
A tax on personal CO2 emissions beyond the politburo approved 1kg per person per day will do wonders.
Does it make a noticeable difference? I quit coffee once for a month or two (it's been a while) and only had 2 days of very mild headaches. After that, didn't notice anything except that I REALLY missed the taste of coffee :) And the ritual.
I didn't notice anything when going back on coffee, either, I don't think it makes me more "productive" or focused or anything. I just like the taste.
That looks a lot like meatless meats - random, I mean scientifically engineered, mix of miscellaneous plant products with caffeine and some other ingredients to make it taste like coffee.
Hey, that's the stuff my (great-)grandparents drank, during and after the world wars! They didn't additionally "upcycle" date seeds, whatever upcycling means in that context, though. :D
Personally I would just switch to pure chicory root or wheat coffee before using such an overpriced "premium mocca faux". $17 for less than a litre of "coffee" is quite the price tag.
Where I live it's not just coffee. Almost all veggies come from half a continent away. Supermarkets are always filled up with exotic fruit from overseas.
Almost every city has a dozen dollar stores where almost all the stuff comes from China.
Transportation of veggies is quite optimized and is almost never the biggest contributor to the carbon footprint of any food or drink product.
Case in point here, looking at the graph, most of the footprint is in the coffee production and preparation, and 5-10% is attributed to transportation.
It's almost alwys better to get tomatoes from a sunny southern region than to grow them in a heated greenhouse locally. Even better to eat seasonally, but then someone will shout "now they're coming for our tomatoes".
How did you guys live before industrialization? Because you understand that unless climate change is solved, the most likely end state for your locale is being forced by nature to go back to whatever you had before industrialization. The whole point is to avoid that end state. So they'll come for your coffee, they'll come for your cheap Chinese junk, or else you'll naturally lose it all anyway.
To put the study in perspective, driving a single mile in your car will emit the same amount of CO2 as brewing 8 of the least efficient cups of coffee listed in the study, and using a single gallon of fuel emits 360 inefficient cups worth of CO2[0].
So basically if you want to ‘offset’ a years worth of daily coffee, drive approximately 20-30 less miles per year.
It's well-known that "carbon footprint" was popularized by oil companies around the time of Inconvenient Truth so that we don't come after them. [0] Even so, before you worry about your coffee tackle the low-hanging fruit first. Drive less, walk and cycle more, go vegan, and stop flying.
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A tax on personal CO2 emissions beyond the politburo approved 1kg per person per day will do wonders.
Fund underperforming government employee's pensions?
I didn't notice anything when going back on coffee, either, I don't think it makes me more "productive" or focused or anything. I just like the taste.
For example: https://atomocoffee.com/pages/beanless-coffee
At that point, I'd rather drink Coke.
Hey, maybe for lunch I'll have an Impossible Whopper!
The future is freaking awesome!
Hey, that's the stuff my (great-)grandparents drank, during and after the world wars! They didn't additionally "upcycle" date seeds, whatever upcycling means in that context, though. :D
Personally I would just switch to pure chicory root or wheat coffee before using such an overpriced "premium mocca faux". $17 for less than a litre of "coffee" is quite the price tag.
Where I live it's not just coffee. Almost all veggies come from half a continent away. Supermarkets are always filled up with exotic fruit from overseas.
Almost every city has a dozen dollar stores where almost all the stuff comes from China.
Case in point here, looking at the graph, most of the footprint is in the coffee production and preparation, and 5-10% is attributed to transportation.
It's almost alwys better to get tomatoes from a sunny southern region than to grow them in a heated greenhouse locally. Even better to eat seasonally, but then someone will shout "now they're coming for our tomatoes".
I thank you ecological collapse is far more likely to lead to this outcome than widespread subsistence farming
So basically if you want to ‘offset’ a years worth of daily coffee, drive approximately 20-30 less miles per year.
[0] https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...
[0] https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...