Did you know that rice produced nearly as much greenhouse gases as aviation in 2020? Are you going to call on people to stop eating rice?

Eating is non-optional. There are no staple foods that have a zero carbon footprint, and rice is not exceptionally bad compared to other starches. Rice is roughly equivalent to aviation because there is a lot more rice-eating going on than flying.

Flying is optional for a lot of people. Most people don’t need to fly, or could fly less than they do. Lower-carbon travel options are available for many journeys.

To put your figures another way- if everyone flew half as much, we’d save as much carbon as half the entire global production of rice. That’s a lot.

Cars are a much bigger one. Take a friggin bus, cycle, or walk more. Residential heating is a big problem too. You don’t need 25C during the winter in your home. You don’t need a 10-20 minute shower.

Those are all great ideas and you should do all those things too.