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Envitarism, is a diet with a goal to reduce an individuals Greenhouse Gass (or GHG) emission. This, in turn will, reduce GHG's harmful impact on our biosphere. GHG emission per kilogram of product (see Greenhouse gas below) is taken as a scale for different types of food having a bigger or smaller impacts. An envitarian chooses a personal threshold on this scale. Foods above the threshold are (in essence) not consumed, while foods below the threshold are used for consumption.

Envitarism is different from environmental veganism in the sense that it does not strictly prohibit eating animal product. When, for example, high GHG emission food like lamb or beef, is otherwise trashed, its rather more wasteful to not consume it. In that case, an envitarian might consider consuming this 'above threshold' food anyway. The baseline, however, it to 'not order, buy, or otherwise obtain 'above threshold' foods.

"Absolutely everything is relative" (by AEIR22; pun intended), we do not need to be a millionaire, or big cooperate, or dictator, or politician, to make a difference! All, especially many small, contribution (or in this case via a diet) help! We simply cannot live (or even be alive) without producing any GHG emission, but all of us can try to minimize our impact.

Our lives, our home
Commonly, the effects of climate change are said to be "on the environment". However, the scope of environment is too all inclusive in this context, as is the atmosphere: ' who ever gets there? '. After-all, it is the livable part of our planet, our biosphere, or equivalent ecosphere, that concerns us. That thin peal around the rocky basis of our planet we all need and live in" and is very fragile. Thát is all our home. We must protection it from the damage we do ourselves, if we, and surely our children, want a place to live in.

Damage
A (big) portion of the damage to our "home" is done by the gasses we exhaust that influence the climate. Proof (or rather "the likelihood of being wrong") of us causing that damage, is extensively investigated and quite well understood by those who dedicate their lives to it. It turns out, we are very likely -not- wrong about our harmful impact on the climate, that in turn determines the 'livability' of our bioshpere.

Greenhouse gas
GHG is often expressed as "C02 equivalent emission per kilogram of product" and is often used as an indicator for the effects certain (greenhouse) gasses have on earth's atmosphere.

A personal threshold
Taking this into account, there are many things one can do to reduce our personal impact. More on that in What helps?. For envitarism we try to reduce on GHG by adjusting our diet.

A good way to go about is to look at a graph of foods' GHG emission per supply-chain step, like the one from [|Ourworldindata]. Now one can choose any desirable threshold, or make a wiser choice by taking the tipping point in this graph. The tipping point being somewhere around "Palm oil" at about 6.3kg GHG per 1kg product. This is an than your envitarian diet threshold:
 * 1) Above it you do not consume (or as few as possible)
 * 2) Everything below is OK.

Terminology
The term envitarism was thought of as a merger of 3 words:
 * 1) Environment the core of the diet is to reduce GHG exhaust. This is within everyone's sphere of influence, and helps reduce our footprint.
 * 2) -tarism to indicate it concerns a diet.
 * 3) Envy or envious as an envitarian could be envious on people who do eat meat. A joke since most people that start a meat-free diet (also) still like its taste, but continuously choose differently.

What helps?
There are many more things we can do to keep/save our biosphere. Many good sources with tips for at home can be found on the internet (more citations needed). However, it boils down to: consuMOREism needs to become "consuLESSism". More on this, rather ideological view, (will come) here.

Other things to consider:
 * 1) Planes have a huge GHG impact! (citation needed) Use them as little as possible, but surely not for, for example, 'a weekend Barcelona', or 'to go shopping across the pond'. Use a train, or bus, or even car first, especially under 800km (just an indication).
 * 2) What do you really need, and what do you just want?
 * 3) Only buy functional stuff. As long as stuff is still functioning, do not buy new.
 * 4) Repair, reuse and recycle.

Ideology
The motivating for envitarism is clear, but a more generic solution to the problem is not.

In considering this, one quickly comes into the real of ideologies. Here a outline of that ideology could look like.

WARNING: This section still needs a lot of work! Hence the rest is hidden from view, but available in source.