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Three years ago, North Dumas Farms was an empty field near the northern edge of the Texas Panhandle. Today it is a massive dairy operation—and one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the state. The dairy is permitted to hold up to 72,500 cows, whose burps and manure would produce an estimated 13,096 metric […]
Taking normal things and then mass producing them isn’t a part of the normal carbon cycle
All carbon coming from cow farts must be created using carbon from the air. If you look at carbon levels in the atmosphere you’ll see the cycle and human activity in this space will just make the cycle more spikey instead of tending up like it does now.
This isn’t a question of “natural good”. Natural sucks. This is good because it poses few long term existential risks.
Fossil fuel emissions are an existential risk. Cow farts and land use can be important if you want to protect biodiversity and such, but not for global warming.
So if we’re taking “natural environmental carbon” and turning it into methane - how is that better??
Trees take carbon out of the atmosphere = natural
Taking an empty field (carbon sink), mass farming cows with a gas-rich diet and not sequestering the methane produced by digestion/waste (methane production) = natural? (and carbon neutral?!)
You’re out to lunch with that opinion my guy. Provide some actual sources aside from a misunderstanding of how the carbon cycle works please.
So if we’re taking “natural environmental carbon” and turning it into methane - how is that better??
Because it’s near impossible to convert enough methane through cows to create a catastrophic temperature change on the whole planet. It’s not like fossil fuels with a cumulative effect.
“this isn’t the sole source of a major problem, and won’t singularly bring about catastrophe. So let’s ignore it entirely, even though there are very simple means to prevent it from happening. it upsets the oligarchy because it’s fatter profits to do nothing.”
All carbon coming from cow farts must be created using carbon from the air. If you look at carbon levels in the atmosphere you’ll see the cycle and human activity in this space will just make the cycle more spikey instead of tending up like it does now.
This isn’t a question of “natural good”. Natural sucks. This is good because it poses few long term existential risks.
Fossil fuel emissions are an existential risk. Cow farts and land use can be important if you want to protect biodiversity and such, but not for global warming.
So if we’re taking “natural environmental carbon” and turning it into methane - how is that better??
Trees take carbon out of the atmosphere = natural
Taking an empty field (carbon sink), mass farming cows with a gas-rich diet and not sequestering the methane produced by digestion/waste (methane production) = natural? (and carbon neutral?!)
You’re out to lunch with that opinion my guy. Provide some actual sources aside from a misunderstanding of how the carbon cycle works please.
Because it’s near impossible to convert enough methane through cows to create a catastrophic temperature change on the whole planet. It’s not like fossil fuels with a cumulative effect.
Again. With the stupidest of arguments.
“this isn’t the sole source of a major problem, and won’t singularly bring about catastrophe. So let’s ignore it entirely, even though there are very simple means to prevent it from happening. it upsets the oligarchy because it’s fatter profits to do nothing.”
You are an idiot.