A little vid about some of my takeways so far from the Leadership in Environmental and Digital Innovation for Sustainability (LEADS) summer school. @damonmatthews.bsky.social
8/8 That said, we do need to arm ourselves with knowledge, facts, and figures, I'd just caution not to overdo it. On that note, if you do want to know more about the climate and coffee @Carbonbrief wrote a great overview you could check out here: interactive.carbonbrief.org/commodity-pr...
7/8 And what about our time? Well, my thought on this is that time spent researching the lifecycle emissions of each product you plan on consuming is time you are not spending getting involved civically to help change the situation.
6/8 So I thought about how this relates to my coffee. If people like me gave up canned coffee, just made it at home and spent the difference on supporting building the political movement we need, we increase the odds that coffee production and all production respect our planetary limits.
5/8 Then I thought, well what is needed for that to happen? I don't claim this to be the magic answer, but surely people's time and money are key ingredients. You can't win a political campaign without either, right? And we know those who oppose us have A LOT of 💵 which buys them lot of ppls time.
4/8 And it appears to me very likely that we're not going to get better laws and regulations unless we get ecologically-minded political leaders in power and build a civil society strong enough to hold them accountable.
3/8 But then I thought, should I be surprised and what does it matter? Because what really matters is the enforcement of laws and regulations that force companies like the UCC to operate within our planetary limits. And at the moment these are either too weak or non-existent.
3/8 ...as I dug a little deeper and looked at their 2024 sustainability plan I found that Scope 1 and Scope 2 emossiom only account for about 3% of their total emissions. They had no targets for the remaining 97%, something that was omitted on the web page.
2/8 So I did a bit of digging on the UCC, the brand of canned coffee I've been drinking, and saw they advertise proudly on their website their commitment to reducing by about half their Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions in 2030 and reach "carbon neutrality" in 2040. However...
1/8 So I watched Wim Werner's Perfect Days and soon after started drinking Japanese canned coffee like the main character. Once the novelty wore off and my cooler head prevailed, I went down a rabbit hole of seeing whether canned was the more sustainable option for my coffee. Here's a 🧵about it ↩
