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Intensive meat production as we know it isn't exactly all that great either due to all the methane it puts out there and i'd expect it to easily outstrip all th
by modo_mario 6y ago
Intensive meat production as we know it isn't exactly all that great either due to all the methane it puts out there and i'd expect it to easily outstrip all the benefits gained from the trampling and cooler ground due to less shrubbery.
We need to pump less greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
- ianai 6y agoI don’t see why it needs to be intensive meat production when it could be just introducing megafauna.
- chr1 6y ago1. We do not have any megafauna to introduce yet 2. If we find a method to restore mammoths, producing large enough number of these animals will take hundreds of years 3. the meat that we do not produce in arctic, is produced in tropics at the cost of destruction of much more diverse and useful forests. But it also doesn't need to be "intensive" and can be free range.
- cameron_b 6y agoMammoth would be great, but a few that would work there could be Bison / Buffalo Polar - Grissly bear cross Horses Wolves Arctic ( Alaska ) paper from USGS - https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70115138 https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70115138
- SyzygistSix 6y agoSo bring the Wooly Mammoth back from extinction? For the sake of the environment, of course.
- chr1 6y agoThere is a group actively working on this [1]. Most exciting part is the work on constructing an artificial uterus to gestate the embryos, which can be a first step for doing the same for people too. [1] https://reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth/progress/ https://reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth/progress/