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я
Kids are cute but
no reall
eco-friendly
One less baby helps
GOOD FOR THE EARTH
the planet more than
Activity saved/yr (tonnes)
giv ing up meat, car
Not having babies
535
Caroline Mortimer
trans-Atlantic flights 2.8
Living car-free
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children the most
Washing clothes water 0.3
ructive thing а per
can to to the envi
Upgrading light bulbs
Eating a plant-based diet
9.8
new study.
ronment, according to a
Researchers from Lund University
tial to reduce emissions’
Sweden found having one fewer
governments focused
per family can save “an average
increasing recycling schemes and
if 58.6 tonnes of CO2-equivalent
ing energy efficient light bulbs, the:
per year
methods were between four and elg
Eating meat, driving а car and
times less effective than eating
ravelling aeroplane
ade up the
plant-based diet
the most polluting things peo-
decreases In an individual's carbon
Researchers found that
can to the
footprint: eating a plant-based diet
one trans-Atlantic flight per
But having children was top,
avoiding living car free and
save between 0.7 and 28 tonnes of
equivalent per year
to the new study, published
having smaller families
distance travelled, amount of lugs
the journal Environmental
living car-free saves
arch Letters.
about 2.4 tonnes of С02
on board and how many passen
“A family who chooses to have
per year, while eating a plant-based
on the flight) whereas recycling
diet saves 0.8 tonnes of equiva.
typically only save 6.21 tonnes 0'
fewer child would provide the
equivalent per year. This means
me level of emissions reductions as
lent a year,”
cling is 3-13 times less likely
teenagers who choose to adopt
The paper, which studied analysed
39-peer reviewed journals studying
he planet than avoiding that
mprehensive recycling for the rest
the environmental policies of several
flight. Carbon emissions must
their lives,”
two tonnes of per person
Lead author Seth Wynes told The
major economies, found most govern:
cal: “We found there are four
ments focused on incremental chang
avoid severe global warming,
which have poten:
THE INDEPENDENT
that could result in substantial