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I feel this is a misnomer. The carbon to grow the corn the cows eat comes from the atmosphere. Corn doesn't create new carbon. Cows don't create new carbon. Som
by snarf21 7y ago
I feel this is a misnomer. The carbon to grow the corn the cows eat comes from the atmosphere. Corn doesn't create new carbon. Cows don't create new carbon. Some of the carbon does get released back into the atmosphere as the corn is harvested and the cows eat it.
The reason fossil fuels are so bad is that we are releasing carbon that has been sequestered for thousands and millions of years. We need to stop increasing the max supply in the atmosphere and slow recapture what is there so we can reduce the ppm and start lowering the greenhouse effects we have created.
- lixtra 7y agoThe problem with cows is supposedly their farts and blurbs that contain a lot of methane- a powerful greenhouse gas.
- snarf21 7y agoIt does and right now we are doing both. There is also a lot of promise around methane capture which we can then burn as fuel and only end up with CO2 (but no new CO2). Methane will also eventually turn back into CO2 and water but it takes several years. Our biggest challenge is that humans (me included) are selfish. We really just need less people to give the earth time to heal itself without doubling down on the destruction at the same time.