RE: Planting Trees is a Waste of Time
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Kind of. I was referring to the last UK election, each party leader was at the podium promising TEN million trees. Then the next one was like oh yeah? well we're promising TWENTY million. And they would just try and one up each other even though the numbers made no sense given that the UK is hell bent on paving over the entire landscape with housing no matter what party you have in power
going vegan
I remember somewhere hearing a pretty decent argument against some of these calculations. I can't remember all the details but basically, cows are pretty efficient to turn into beef. 50-100 gallons of water compared to 500 gallons for the same amount in rice - and almost all the water in cow's lives is rainwater. Food is grass or leftovers, etc.
It's kinda like how Bitcoin consumes an insane amount of power, but most that power is leftover scrap energy from other sources that would otherwise go to waste.
I wish I remembered what they said about greenhouse gas emissions but cows are surely among the worst for that either way... until we crack the almost cracked puzzle of fart control!
I'm not aware of the arguments against, but the cows aren't the only thing that needs water: its their food too. Most crops that are grown on Amazon's deforested areas is to feed cows, or something to that effect.
I visited the Cowspiracy site to find out exactly what the claim was, but it's got so much research I had to ctrl + F 'Amazon' : "Animal agriculture is responsible for up to 91% of Amazon destruction."
Again, I'm not familiar with the counter-arguments, but it's interesting stuff.
Well yeah to be clear I doubt the combined counter arguments is enough to actually justify such massive beef production, but there are certain aspects, such as the water, that should be part of the conversation - kind of like how Organic food is essentially just a less-regulated version of regular food which still uses pesticides etc (according to John Oliver)
It's really hard to get to the bottom of all the nuances explained over countless thousands of papers researching these matters though.
Cowspiracy does an excellent job at looking exactly like a conspiracy website lol