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The Cheeseburger Syndrome: Carbon Transparency


For the record: yes, I was serious.





How did you make that label?

A combination of: a look at a "Nutrition Facts" side-panel from a box of cereal, Photoshop, a blank page, and about an hour.

Lol@ first question.

Anyway, I saw this just now Jamais, and thought of you:


Do you know about the Low Carbon Diet?

I wrote a piece on my inadvertent method of carbon offset at

I was trying to work out the full cost of coal energy. I think it needs to be done country by country, but mainly for the USA and China.

Coals impact on individuals in the USA

$200-1000/year in higher health insurance premiums
higher prices on goods and products. Companies are passing on the higher health premiums that they pay for their workers, plus the lost productivity for workers that are out sick because of pollution.
Higher costs for acid resistant paint for cars, houses
Extra costs for public buildings that need more repair to the outside because of pollution damage
Toxic waste, superfund cleanups
Less fish, higher prices for fish
Less resale value on cars in places with acid rain (more rust and corrosion). New Jersey, Detroit etc...
Any flight delays in or out of Los Angeles and other places because of visibility.

Significant chance of personally knowing one of the 27,000 people who die each year in the USA.
Grandma, granddad, mom, dad, uncle or aunt, friend dieing a few years earlier from lung disease. Definitely over 40 years. 1 out of 300 people would be dead permaturely from coal. In China it is worse with 1,000,000 permature deaths per year from coal. Total death rate in China is 6.94 per 1,000. So out of 9.4 million dead, 1 in 10 of the deaths was premature from pollution which is mainly coal pollution.

Power plant pollution is responsible for 38,200 nonfatal heart attacks and 554,000 asthma attacks each year in the USA.


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