On average, crafting one 750-milliliter bottle of liquor results in roughly 6.5 pounds of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere, equivalent to burning a third of a gallon of gasoline (as reported by the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable).
I won’t deny that the beverage consumption of my youth did contribute to the poisoning of our big blue marble. And yes, in whiskey’s early days pollution was so rampant that the US government had to step
