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The only way to stop it is for a large, central government to assume more and authority and to put about 1/2 of all humans in concentration camps and provide them with a diet of alternative protein - i.e. insects. Of course, we will still need the elites in politics and media, so they can continue living as they wish.
The only way to stop it is for a large, central government to assume more and authority and to put about 1/2 of all humans in concentration camps and provide them with a diet of alternative protein - i.e. insects. Of course, we will still need the elites in politics and media, so they can continue living as they wish.
It's going to be a very steep uphill battle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from animal agriculture. Obviously it's impossible to get cows to stop farting and pooping. And cows are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases amongst the animal agriculture industry. The methane emitted from cows is much more damaging to the environment than carbon dioxide as well.
The most effective method would be for a large percentage of the human population to at the very least swear off of beef/steak or dairy products in general. Weaning people off of cow meat will probably be easier because despite the taste and nutrition that people love, it could also be argued that such meat increases a person's risk for heart disease and early death. Plus there's the whole issue of the mass killings of cows in order to satiate the human appetite for cow meat.
Getting people off of dairy products will also be helpful but I predict it'll be harder. Dairy products aren't as harmful to human health and the cow doesn't need to die in order for us to obtain those products.
What is the reason for you to believe those are the biggest greenhouse gas emitters? Who told you that is the reality?
Reforestation, for one, is an important thing to do to address it and it should be getting done all over the world.
Is that really, truly the only thing you hear? Where are you hearing this from? Are you really not discovering any other information? Are you looking at the big picture on a global scale?
Yes, the animal agriculture industry is the biggest global contributor of greenhouse gas emissions.
One reason many people may not have heard of this issue is because of "ag-gag" laws. These laws are active in some states across the US. They make it hard for people to expose the bad sides of the animal agriculture industry.
The sun offers near-infinite energy, but the problem is harnessing that energy. Harnessing this energy requires solar cells and solar cell production emits greenhouse gases much worse than carbon dioxide.
Energy scholar Ozzie Zehner explains that the solar cell manufacturing process is one of the largest emitters of hexafluoroethane, nitrogen trifluoride, and sulfur hexafluoride.
Zehner writes, "As a greenhouse gas hexafluoroethane is twelve thousand times more potent than carbon dioxide … nitrogen trifluoride is seventeen thousand times more virulent than carbon dioxide, and sulfur hexafluoride, the most treacherous greenhouse gas…is twenty-five thousand times more threatening (than carbon dioxide)."
Yes, the animal agriculture industry is the biggest global contributor of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Aaaarrgh! Fifth Grade science class: The Carbon Cycle, remember?
Grass converts sunlight plus h2o + co2 into glucose, then cellulose. Cows (et al.) eat grass and turn it back into energy + co2 + h2o. Net change in atm [co2] ZERO. (The little bit of ch4 in flatus is also quickly oxidized in the atm to co2 for complete re-cycling of C & co2.
The biggest emitter of co2 is The Ocean. The Ocean has cycles where it brings warming water to the surface and cooling water sinks. A warm ocean emits more co2 than a cool one. (Try opening a warm beer and a cold one. Which one has a bigger head?)
The Ocean warms or cools the atm, not the other way around. The Ocean controls the weather and the climate.
re: the other GHGs listed by MIsty... they are more potent on a molar basis, but occur in negligible amounts. Even co2 contributes so little to warming that it's signal is lost in the error of the data.
If the "Greenhouse Effect" is such a negative, why do people purposely grow food in greenhouses?! No one is trying to feed people by using a "Tundra-house".
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