How can you reconcile sustainable living with eating meat and airplane travel? ‘Footprintarians’ know the solution | climate

A vegetarian who takes the plane is pointed at the finger. Anyone who drives an electric car but eats avocados has not understood it. When it comes to sustainable living, the bar is constantly being raised. Is it never good enough? Sure enough: author Kees Aarts argues as a ‘footprintarian’ that the mild middle ground is just as effective. You don’t have to forbid yourself anything, he says, not even meat, as long as you take one number into account: your CO2 footprint. “A frikandel is perhaps the most sustainable snack there is.”

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