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* a lot of energy is used to farm the cows, e.g. growing their food, fertilizers, butchering, shipping, etc * Cow methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than c
by colordrops 5y ago
* a lot of energy is used to farm the cows, e.g. growing their food, fertilizers, butchering, shipping, etc
* Cow methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than co2, orders of magnitude worse
* Land that would capture a lot more CO2 and keep water in the environment is chopped down or otherwise destroyed to make pastures, the worst being rainforests.
* Orders of magnitude more water is used to raise cows vs the equivalent calories in plants.
- Manuel_D 5y ago> Cow methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than co2, orders of magnitude worse But it's also released in much lower quantities, and has a much faster half life. Let's be clear: carbon dioxide, not methane, is responsible for the overwhelming majority of long term warming.
- bastiantower 5y agoThe point about the extra energy is potentially valid, although it would need data. Methane being worse than CO2 doesn't change the fact that it's a cycle and thus it's not causing extra warming as long as the amount of animals is constant. Alternative forests, etc, is equally a one off thing. Keeping the pastures doesn't make anything worse, and reverting them back would only be a one off improvement.