The Carbon Footprint Of A Sandwich 

My teacher is making us seriously go through and find how much 1 slice of bread takes

Super underrated channel

I love your cheerful patience in creating these videos and in your dealing with the comments section. Huzzah!

Beautiful production! Plus the way the message is conveyed is much more hopeful than all the others stressing the carbon footprint. Job well done!

I love the production of these videos!

Really puts things into perspective. I think you should also add a very small hint type of thing a the end how people could offset this. Going solar would be the obvious deal for the laptop or computer (and every other electrical device people have at home) , just tips like that would be great to not only make people aware, but to educate them on the "how to" change if they want to apply it.

Great video. A bit shorter than the normal one, but it quickly got the point across. It would also be great to see a video of water usage as many parts of the world already are and are becoming more arid.

Aww this one made me sad😢 and I’m watching this right before I’m going to sleep I’ll be thinking about this all night long🤦🏽‍♀️

1 colab w/ vsauce, veritassium, the king of random, or smarter every day and this channel would skyrocket!!!

WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE FANTASTIC INTRO!?!?! PLEASE BRING IT BACK! :D

HELP MY TEACHER FORCED ME TO WATCH THIS ACTUALLY GOOD VIDEO

That was excellent. Well done!

This helped with my assignment so much

It created JERBS for WIMIN?! xD. Cool story, thank you. Honestly I clicked it just because I thought "come on, how do you make this interesting" - so surprised. Really had fun watching this :). Super high quality stuff. Thank you.

Under rated channel

1:35 grind into flour (with a hand crank)

Hi. Can you point to a set of fairly easy to use data that would let a business estimate it’s bought in food carbon footprint in co2e? 🤔

thanks for being honest and not being afraid of stepping on the meat industries toes a little

But what about the carbon taken from carbon dioxide as the wheat, sugar, tomato and lettuce grow. Pretty much all the carbon in there is from CO2 in the air. Plus the plants that fed the pigs are made from CO2. Two slices of bread contain 3 x 10^25 carbon atoms in the form of carbohydrates. That's a lot of carbon taken from the atmosphere. You didn't tell your audience one rather important fact. Plants spend most of their growing time, taking in CO2, splitting off the carbon, making more plant cells with the carbon and releasing the oxygen. Remember that most of the whole plant is carbon and water. So to produce the 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms of carbon in the bread, you need all the other parts of the wheat plant too. That's a lot more carbon dioxide than just the carbon atoms tied up in the seeds, the bit we eat. I appreciate that the point of the video was to make people think about the carbon used to make food, but only telling half the story is as bad as the climate change deniers ignoring facts to support their case.

I love this video. I can show this now when I come across someone who thinks it’s easy to change the world in just a few steps now know what goes on behind the scenes so to speak.

Nice !!! Would love to use it for educational purposes ! For adults, could you make a new one using a more complex life-cycle assessment? (although that could make the video less fun to watch!)

This animation is so cool

so lovely and educated !!

y upload is so slow? :/ such great content

My teacher is making me watch this for an assignment

You better ate that sandwich it look mad gooddd

to grow those crops have had consumed bit of CO2, is that counted in your calculations

Great video. However, you were able to give a number of g of CO2 of your BLT sandwich. Could you maybe compare it with a vegetarian and a vegan sandwich? Basically throwing in some eggs instead of bacon for vegetarian, and replacing that again with something of a vegan sandwich with proteins (no idea what one could use for that unfortunately, I'm not a sandwich guy). Would help people understand the impact of meat! (Which may, or may not be the goal of your video).

The carbon footprint of all the stuff used in this video though... damn

Hi polam

All this video did was make me hungry! 😮‍💨

So are you gonna eat that or what

I thought about commenting on this video, but then I realized that my response (and the 4 or 5 hysterical responses to that comment) would create some amount of CO2 that would raise the Earth's temperature by 0.0000000000000001º by the year 2175. I mean it would increase someone's "projection" of what the temperature would be in 2175. Actually, in 2175 someone in power at CRU or NOAA would lower today's temperature record to illustrate that the temperature had risen exactly 0.0000000000000001º since 2017. Which of course is EXACTLY the same thing, right?

I really want to be more green. I care, I really do. I bicycle commute and eliminated one car, etc, but this is not even close to science. All that transport is far more efficient than portrayed. In fact, the whole buy local movement is a good idea, but based on bad science. Every trip mentioned in this video is more efficient than portrayed because it is like car pooling. Because it is moved in mass, it is more energy efficient than hundreds of locals growing and moving the same amount locally. Modern trucks and tractors are far more energy efficient than portrayed. This is especially true of tractors that now actually reburn fuel for both efficiencies and emissions that rival electricity (except in the production of the fossil fuel). They are years, perhaps decades, ahead of automotive. They are still a long way behind the efficiencies of moving these products by rail and barge. indeed, meat production is not efficient compared to plants. Aside from eliminating, or to drastically reduce our meat consumption (possibly a more worthy topic), large scale operatioms, that require transport, are still more environmentally friendly than lots of near local producers doing it in a small scale. I prefer local meat produced in a more humane and less chemically enhanced manner, but that has more to do with regulation than location. The only way for this video to make sense would be to turn back large swathes of land in and around all of our communities, to farm production. I could live with no suburbs or individual housing. I doubt most of the world would agree.

Is it one day going to be possible to live on any other planet?

Interesting that almost the entire 3 minutes are spent detailing the creation of the bread, yet merely 10 seconds on the carbon footprint of 4 strips of bacon, which FAR exceeds every other ingredient of the BLT. Even had to drastically compress the units of the graph just to fit the carbon from bacon into it. Replacing the flesh of a pig's belly with tempeh in this sandwich seems like an obvious answer to drastically reduce its environmental impact. Considering so few people understand the enormous impact of animal agriculture, emphasis on this most damaging ingredient would have been incredibly useful for educating the public. For those interested in learning why animal agriculture is largely absent from discussions about environmental and health solutions, check out the films COWSPIRACY and WHAT THE HEALTH... both on Netflix.

damn

Adam, you have too many arms!

the only logical conclusion is to stop eating

At the end he has three hands. that's my statement of the day goodbye

If you ate a BLT sandwich everyday for a year, you would *get diabetes.*

so wht tf is a BLT

considering that just by existing/breathing we create co2 and pollute, I'm now wondering how many turkey sandwiches are worth CEOs. probably a lot.

why cant we just go back to the old fashioned thing where we do manual labor. like what's to hard about just walking through the field yourself instead of using a tractor.

Fine I just won’t eat

In the year of our Lord eighteen-hundred-and-eleven...

O mundo sofre. Não adianta ter uma grande economia, enquanto a Terra queima, é hora de parar de ser egoísta e só acusar. The world is suffering. There's no point in having a big economy while the Earth burns. It's time to stop being selfish and just accuse. comente isto em todo vídeo que você ver comment on every video you watch

WHY MUST YOU UPLOAD AT 3AM

This video is depressing. After watching the movie "Don't look up" I looked into ways I could personally reduce my carbon footprint. Its very difficult and seems overwhelming. Its going to take billons of people to change habits and lifestyles. Starting with the most wealthy and carbon producing countries. I really don't think it will happen. Once ecosystems collapse there will be mass famine. The human population will be substantially reduced. And a new earth will emerge unlike the earth we know today.

Food is non negotiable pencil. Maybe we should focus on the carbon of the engineering, electronics, infrastructure and energy spent producing and distributing this video. Seems to me that modern technology and innovation are the cause of our demise, not the necessity to eat. If we are going to produce carbon for something worthy, it should be food and health.

It's the bacon!!!!!!!

pov your watching this for class

**laughs in pbj** ...actually that's probably worse

who is watching this from the uk

Simple solution. Lose the bacon. It's poison anyway.

I just want to eat my sandwich 😓

2:17 And that's why I'm a vegetarian

Dont eat sandwiches

If this is true, why aren't we all dead yet?

we should all be vegetarian

If the goal is to make a single sandwich you wouldn't use all that elaborate equipment in the first place so this is all factually dishonest.

Everybody screaming that CO2 is something terribly bad. But I don't get Any points to proving that

Still not going vegan

We should just not eat anything ever. smh

pure bs

Oh you silly liberals

If this is true, why aren't we all dead yet?