The process of carbon-labelling food items and other consumer goods and services will soon be able to draw on the power of software and AI.
That means electrifying transport and industry, and shifting the global power grid to renewable sources. Firming these sources will require storage technologies orders of magnitude greater than the batteries on offer today.
The foundation of choice is information. Most people wouldn’t be aware of Smil’s calculation that each tomato bought in Europe has approximately 5 tablespoons of embedded diesel oil.
Our banks and retailers are similarly decarbonising their own operations – but the real task for these companies may be to play their part in enabling the third lever, efficiency, by supporting informed personal choice.
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