, Columnist
Good News: You Don’t Have to Give Up Eating Beef
Just try some chicken occasionally.
Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg
These are grim days in the fight against global heating, but every now and then you still stumble across a chance for an easy victory. Two new studies show how, merely with small tweaks to their meat-eating habits, Americans could erase what amounts to the annual greenhouse-gas emissions of a decent-sized industrialized country.
It will not even require prying cheeseburgers from anyone’s cold, dead hands.