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Your Thanksgiving Meal’s Climate Impact, in 4 Charts
The single dish with the highest carbon footprint is not the meat — it’s the mac n cheese.
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Miriam Quick
Miriam Quick is a journalist who explores novel and diverse ways of telling stories with data. Her work has been published by the BBC and Scientific American. She is co-founder of the Loud Numbers data sonification studio (loudnumbers.net) and co-author of I am a book. I am a portal to the universe. (Penguin, 2020).
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