“Generally, what happens to these wastes today is they go to a landfill, get dumped in a waterway, or they’re just spread on land,” said Vaulted Deep CEO Julia Reichelstein. “In all of those cases, they’re decomposing into CO2 and methane. That’s contributing to climate change.”
Waste decomposition is part of the natural carbon cycle. Burning fossil fuels isn’t. We should not be suppressing part of the natural cycle so we can supplant it with our own processes. This is Hollywood accounting applied to carbon emissions, and it’s not going to solve anything.
But their shit comes from plants and they get their carbon from the air.
The unnatural additions to that cycle are fertilizers (more nitrates than normal) and complex organic chemicals (pesticides, antibiotics, …).
The carbon cycle is undisturbed by them.
Waste decomposition is part of the natural carbon cycle. Burning fossil fuels isn’t. We should not be suppressing part of the natural cycle so we can supplant it with our own processes. This is Hollywood accounting applied to carbon emissions, and it’s not going to solve anything.
Partially true. Factory farm animals are not natural.
I don’t know, animals sound pretty natural to me. Maybe the walls aren’t, but I don’t think that’s what you meant
Majority of livestock animals would not survive without humans.
But their shit comes from plants and they get their carbon from the air.
The unnatural additions to that cycle are fertilizers (more nitrates than normal) and complex organic chemicals (pesticides, antibiotics, …). The carbon cycle is undisturbed by them.