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ELI5 - Cows Don't Pollute (hackertalks.com)
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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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[–] 0 points 1 week ago

methane has a 10 year linger time, a cow as a static methane overhead, it is not a net contributor

. We need to rapidly stop greenhouse gas emissions in the next few decades, because we’re already starting to see how bad climate change is going to be.

Agreed, we can be better - but attacking food that keeps people healthy isn't the way to achive that. Sick people are expensive and the medical industry is a massive polluter

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