2024-03-24 08:24:23
– Develop your “carbon intuition” on a daily basis
From sending a text message to building a house, a book attempts to quantify the CO2 footprint of everything. Everyday examples and interview with the author.
Published today at 9:24 a.m.
“Can we still eat bananas” is coming out these days in a French version which is not a simple translation from English. We discuss the carbon footprint of baguettes or the TGV, with calculations taking into account the French energy mix, which is less carbon-intensive than the British.
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Saying thank you by email, eating an apple, taking the train, adopting a dog… All these actions have an ecological cost. When was the first edition of “Can we still eat bananas?” appeared in 2010, the notion carbon footprint was still relatively unknown. Fourteen years and many wildfires later, the principle has found its way into (almost) everyone’s consciousness, and Mike Berners-Lee’s book has been reissued. Translated into multiple languages, it is coming out in French these days. The British physicist aims to give his readers a “carbon intuition”, or “an idea of the carbon footprint of everything we consume and do every day”. From the smallest (sending an SMS: 0.7 g CO2e) to the most colossal (a war: 400 million tonnes).
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