Explained like I'm 5 - Cows don't pollute

A. Cows don't create carbon, they perform neither nuclear fission or nuclear fusion. They can't create elements.

B. Everything that comes out of a cow, must have gone into the cow.

C. Grass grows using carbon from the environment.

D. Cows eat grass, because they are a ruminant.

E. All the gas that comes out of a cow went into the cow as grass.

F. Therefore all the carbon that come out of a cow first has to be captured by grass to go into the cow.

G. Cows are part of a natural biocycle, they do not create pollution.

H. If cows don't eat the grass something will - animals, fire, microbes, and the biocycle will continue.

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago

from the perspective of renewable energy - yes, if you only burn wood that just grew and you find a steady state (i.e. you only burn what grew that year).. yeah, it's sustainable.

air quality and human lung issues don't encourage consistent burning in places where people live, but yeah forest fires happen, so the cycle is sound. The fuel will be used by animals, microbes, or fire.

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