TOTALLY GEEKED!

A new study published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology suggests that one group of humans more than any other is destroying the world’s environment simply by eating: white people.

The study’s authors, who were funded in part by the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Diversity Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fellowship from Bayer-Monsanto, posited that white people create more greenhouse gases because white people trigger an average of 680 kilograms of carbon dioxide each year by eating while “Latinx” people contribute 640 kilograms and blacks produce 600 kilograms. They wrote, “It follows from the work on environmental justice and culturally sensitive environmental education practices that inclusion of demographic variables be central to a field as diverse as climate change adaptation.”

First author Joe Bozeman stated, "While the difference may not be enormous, these numbers are per individual, and when you add up all those individuals, it's very clear that whites are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gases emitted as a result of their food choices.”

The authors used data gleaned from the Environmental Protection Agency's What We Eat in America - Food Commodity Intake Database to buttress their findings. They acknowledged, “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) What We Eat in America–Food Commodity Intake Database (FCID) provided per capita food consumption estimates for over 500 food commodities derived from over 7,000 different foods – including beverages and water.” The authors asserted that certain foods are more “environmentally intense,” including potatoes, apples, beef meat, milk, wheat and oil.

Results indicate that Whites tend to consume the highest rates of environmentally intense food items, except for the apples food item, when compared to their Black and Latinx counterparts. Comparing Whites to Latinx, Whites consume significantly more than Latinx for five of the seven environmentally intense food items. This pattern remains the same for beef meat although the difference between Whites and Latinx beef meat is marginally significant. Furthermore, Whites consume significantly more than Blacks for six of the seven food items but were equal (i.e., nonsignificant) to their Black counterparts in terms of oil consumption. The results comparing Blacks and Latinx are mixed, with the two groups showing no statistical difference in consumption of apples, beef meat, and wheat, and a marginal difference in consumption of water.

The study stated that whites use roughly 7% more water than the “Latinx” population. Bozeman commented, "Whites tend to drink more water and milk. Milk itself requires a lot of water to produce when you consider livestock cultivation, so that is part of what we think is pushing their water impacts higher."

Bozeman added, “The food pipeline - which includes its production, distribution and waste - contributes significantly to climate change through the production of greenhouse gases and requires significant amounts of water and land, which also has environmental effects. If we are to draft policies related to food, they can't be one-size-fits-all policies because different populations have different eating patterns which have their own unique impacts on the environment."

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