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> Moreover forests are carbon neutral - that's why it's called a carbon CYCLE As is the meat industry despite many citations of a retracted paper - the cows ar
by jjcon 5y ago
> Moreover forests are carbon neutral - that's why it's called a carbon CYCLE
As is the meat industry despite many citations of a retracted paper - the cows aren't emitting anything that wasn't already in the grass (at least not in the long term). Both however to act as temporary buffers/reservoirs and emitters that can affect things if they are kept around in perpetuity.
- wumpus 5y ago> the cows aren't emitting anything that wasn't already in the grass This is not true; fertilizer and farm machinery to fertilize and harvest the corn that creates 1/2 the mass of feedlot meat burns a lot of oil. And almost all of American beef goes through feedlots.
- jjcon 5y ago>burns a lot of oil Oil isn't emitted from cows
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- 8note 5y agoDoes the time spent in the cow make up for the cow re-releasing the carbon as methane instead of carbon dioxide? The same carbon was in the air, but not necessarily causing the same greenhouse effect
- jjcon 5y agoThe methane is only temporary and still maintains equalibrium in the long term - the issue is when we extract/introduce entirely new greenhouse gases to the system (notably oil)