Cattle…. CO2…. Methane

[mervyn]

I missed this bit yesterday. Just because you smell shit does not mean there is methane. It is odorless.

World’s first carbon tax on livestock will cost farmers $100 per cow
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/business/denmark-cows-carbon-tax/index.html

Livestock farming has a particularly big impact, accounting for around 12% of global emissions in 2015, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. A share of this pollution comes from methane, a potent planet-warming gas produced by cows and some other animals through their burps and manure.

 

[Overnight]

World’s first carbon tax on livestock will cost farmers $100 per cow
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/business/denmark-cows-carbon-tax/index.html

Livestock farming has a particularly big impact, accounting for around 12% of global emissions in 2015, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. A share of this pollution comes from methane, a potent planet-warming gas produced by cows and some other animals through their burps and manure.

There are an estimated 940,000,000 cows on the planet.

There are an estimated 8,100,000,000 humans on the planet.

We both burp and fart, and lay manure.

So which animal has a more damaging impact again?

Time to carbon-tax people, and then the world will be safe, yes?