That’s what Time says:
Shame on you! It’s Science!
If your family gets in the car and drives a couple miles across town to dinner, the turkey’s emissions (about 29 kg of CO2 for a turkey that feeds 12 people) will be far higher than the journey’s footprint. But as soon as you get even slightly into “long drive” territory, the emissions from just one average gasoline vehicle on the road surpasses those of the entire turkey you’re sitting down to eat. It is that point—72.25 miles round trip, assuming a 20 lbs. turkey—that we propose to call the turkey threshold (it varies by turkey size, of course). That’s not counting that most Thanksgiving dinners probably have multiple vehicles traveling to Nana’s. For the case of passengers traveling in five separate cars, for instance, each car can only travel just over 7 miles each way to stay under the turkey threshold. (Now you know.)
The Climate Impact of Your Thanksgiving Travel vs. Turkey | TIME
The obvious conclusion is we must ban Thanksgiving, indeed all holidays and family get togethers.
The story teller who tells us this has a BA in English Literature from Princeton. He developed, in his own words, “deep expertise” in his STEM subject by attending Collision 2023 in Toronto (a 4 day conference) and “2022 Society for Environmental Journalists Conference in Houston” (another 5 day conference – they have subject area expert speakers but many speakers are other reporters/writers/editors or directors of activist groups and NGOs.)
