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There is a country in Europe that is at the forefront in terms of ecology, it is Sweden where a new credit card is launched, a bit peculiar.

It's a Credit Card that shows the C02 emissions for each of our purchases. If you buy pants made in China, you are told "20 kilo of CO2 in the atmosphere".
MasterCard is launching this credit card in Sweden in partnership with a start-up that is able to measure CO2 emissions for each product.

There are two versions of this Credit Card?

One that simply indicates C02 releases, which is already a revolution. Today, we know the price of things, soon we will know their carbon footprint.
The other version of this credit card is more authoritarian since it hangs when you have exceeded a certain C02 quota. You receive a message of the type "purchase refused, C02 quota reached".

It should be known that a French rejects on average 12 tons of C02 per year, it is much too much.
To be carbon neutral, one should not exceed two tons of C02, six times less.

In everyday life, you have to monitor your carbon footprint and make trade-offs.
A Paris-Lyon by car is 100 kilo of C02. By TGV, it's a kilogram of CO2.
Similarly, a turkey fillet is three times less CO2 in the atmosphere than a fillet of beef.

Is this a credit card-C02 gadget or could it radically change our daily life?

Everything that comes from Sweden in terms of ecology is needed very quickly.
In the air, the whole movement against the plane came from Sweden and we are now talking about taxing kerosene at the European level or banning domestic routes.
This would be a radical change to this C02 Credit Card.
Today, global warming is the business of governments, large companies, Total or the COP 21. Suddenly, it becomes our business in a very concrete and individual way.

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