• ElcaineVolta@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    hmm, I didn’t have any issue finding studies that compare the two; here’s one:
    https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2022/03/15/it-may-be-uncomfortable-we-need-talk-about-it-animal-agriculture-industry-and-zero-waste

    Animal agriculture produces 65% of the world’s nitrous oxide emissions which has a global warming impact 296 times greater than carbon dioxide. Raising livestock for human consumption generates nearly 15% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, which is greater than all the transportation emissions combined.

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      11 months ago

      Very much cherry picking data points here: nitrous oxide has a higher impact by volume, but the output is infinitesimal compared to CO² and other harmful substances involved in the extraction, processing and combustion of fossil to the point that it’s still a TINY problem in comparison.

      As for this part

      15% of total global greenhouse gas emissions, which is greater than all the transportation emissions combined

      That’s just a flat out lie.

      Source:

      • gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        The problem I see here is that it measures greenhouse gas emissions, but not “net greenhouse gas emissions”, which is much more important.

        For example, “crop burning” contributes to the CO2 emissions short-term, but not long-term. Still they list it as “3.5%” of emissions.