Animal agriculture is around 15% of global emissions, and AI is probably .1% to .5%, but sure, stop using LLMs. That will solve the problem.

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9rx 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Animal agriculture is around 15% of global emissions

The majority of which is methane, which only has a 7-12 year life. Which means — unless for some reason you started eating way more animals than you did yesterday — that your emissions today simply replace your emissions from 12 years ago. In other words, it is a stable system, unlike carbon, which basically sticks around forever.

	▲	alex_young 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But aren’t we doing just that? Many more people eating more meat than ever before? Methane has a shorter shelf life, but is far more potent, meaning that any increase is worrying, and decreases could have a dramatic impact.

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pjmlp 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Indeed lets tear down forests to build soya fields for all that fake meat tofu.

	▲	pingou 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You must have been misinformed, they tear down forests to grow soya to use as feedstock (mostly for beef). Nothing to do with fake meat tofu, quite the opposite actually.