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That is not what your link says at all. The second largest category is animal agriculture and forestry at 24% of global GHG emissions, the largest is power at 2
by dashundchen 9y ago
That is not what your link says at all. The second largest category is animal agriculture and forestry at 24% of global GHG emissions, the largest is power at 25%.
https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=29892 https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?artic...
Animal agriculture is extremely destructive. Forestry being in that category, one of the biggest causes of deforestation is expansion of cattle grazing and feed lands, especially in the Amazon.
- pier25 9y agoRead the small letters please. > Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector come mostly from agriculture (cultivation of crops and livestock) and deforestation. This estimate does not include the CO2 that ecosystems remove from the atmosphere by sequestering carbon in biomass, dead organic matter, and soils, which offset approximately 20% of emissions from this sector. Not only the number includes crop agriculture, but also deforestation is caused by quite a large number of factors.
- dashundchen 9y agoEstimated 80% of the GHG emissions in deforestation to be caused by animal ag. It's important to understand the claims your making if you're going to state that animal again is not a significant portion of that 24%. As much as it seems like you'd like to deny, animal agriculture is a substatial driver of man made climate change. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120925091608.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120925091608.h...