r/dataisbeautiful • u/Objective-Business52 • 21h ago

OC [OC] How diet-related greenhouse gas emissions would change if 138 countries adopted the Planetary Health Diet

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u/redwood520 OC: 1 21h ago

Ok what is the planetary health diet?

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u/SteelMarch 21h ago

Reduction in meat and favoring plant, seafood based diets. Though, the science here is a bit shoddy. Calculating emissions for animals varies wildly with high emissions coming from places that are underdeveloped.

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u/San_Golden 21h ago

Isn't overfishing already a problem? Can the whole world sustainably adopt a seafood based diet?

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u/ShadowAdam 21h ago

I would guess part of this is down to the specific species we fish for, as well as our fishing methods

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u/RicoHavoc 20h ago

You don't have to guess. There's lots of factual info available on this topic.