Here are some considerations for how you might measure holistically the impact of a product:
Resource required producing extractive equipment for source resource (amortized across life of equipment)
Resource required producing transport equipment for source resource (amortized across life of equipment, if material)
Resource required producing process equipment to convert source resource into component or sellable goods (amortized across life of equipment)
Energy required extracting resource
Energy required transporting resource
Energy required to process resource
Energy required transporting component
Energy required transforming into a finished good
Note that carbon would span across all these elements above, but there is water and other resources consumed as well.
What about social justice? How does that play in? Is that too complicated to look at quantitatively?
Resource required producing transport equipment for source resource (amortized across life of equipment, if material)
Resource required producing process equipment to convert source resource into component or sellable goods (amortized across life of equipment)
Energy required extracting resource
Energy required transporting resource
Energy required to process resource
Energy required transporting component
Energy required transforming into a finished good
Note that carbon would span across all these elements above, but there is water and other resources consumed as well.
What about social justice? How does that play in? Is that too complicated to look at quantitatively?
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