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Oxen are not zero emissions. If they were, we would still be using them.
by 1970-01-01 11mo ago
Oxen are not zero emissions. If they were, we would still be using them.
- hagbard_c 11mo agoThey are circular though and with that should count as zero-emission: 1: steer calf is born from cow 2: calf gets his goolies cut off turning him into an ox 3: ox eats grass, burps and farts and shits it out on both ends. Some of his shit ends up as fertiliser for the grass he or one of his fellow bovines eat 4: eventually ox gets eaten The input: grass -> cow -> oxen The output: oxen -> shit -> grass From grass they came, to grass they return. If someone were to be so kind as to shrink bovines down to, say, bumblebee-size it would be easy to do an experiment with that in one of those glass-sphere closed ecosystems. I'm pretty sure they'd thrive.
- 1970-01-01 11mo agoThe methane they burp/fart (output) is a massive greenhouse gas and isn't returned until 100 years after their death.
- hagbard_c 11mo agoBovines of all sorts have been (mostly) burping and (sometimes) farting methane since they decided to become ruminants. Imagine the methane produced by the massive herds of bison roaming the plains before they were decimated. Earth abides, still.
- 1970-01-01 11mo agoI think you lost the point that a mass adoption of bovine as transportation would accelate the greenhouse effect.