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> It's not like mammalian herbivores are a recent invention. If a constant amount of mammalian herbivores in the world would cause a constant acceleration of gr
by squeaky-clean 4y ago
> It's not like mammalian herbivores are a recent invention. If a constant amount of mammalian herbivores in the world would cause a constant acceleration of greenhouse effect then the greenhouse effect would have increased exponentially for millions of years already.
Factory style livestock farming is a recent invention. There's no way a similar amount of herbivores existed a million years ago in the wild compared to what we can currently cage and feed corn product to.
- ftrobro 4y agoYou're missing the point. An increase in the number of mammalian herbivores just means an increased point of equilibrium for methane. But there will still be an equilibrium. In contrast, using fossile sources of carbon (oil etc) will increase the greenhouse effect every year even if the usage is constant.
- thfuran 4y agoAnd you seem to be missing the point that increasing the equilibrium concentration of atmospheric methane is something we very much do not want to do. And that agriculture isn't actually a closed loop.