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Canada wants to make cows burp less to fight climate change
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What a minimal issue. They should focus instead on how to not ship they're garbage to other countries to throw it in the ocean.
This perspective always confuses me. There are thousands of things we need to be doing to help slow down this awful path we're on.
But if we make any progress on any issue that isn't one of the top 10 issues, people come out and make noise as if there is a single person working on solving all these problems, and by them progressing this one thing meant everything else was on hold.
"They" has always been one solitary but massive and undefinable group orchestrating the downfall of humanity one step at a time.
Because many companies are making minor, cheap solutions so they can sell carbon tax credits. Many green projects are just another profit generation scheme. Very rarely is any real change being worked on.
What? Government incentives drive company decisions all the time. The US highway system, EV, semiconductors, oil, pretty much every major development in modern society is backed by government incentives.
Big farm companies will engage in "burp reduction," gain carbon tax credits for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, then sell them to fossil fuel companies for a huge profit. Any minor benefit immediately becomes a net negative for the environment overall.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/canada-offer-incentives-cattle-farms-reduce-methane-emissions-2023-12-10/
"...beef cattle operations with an opportunity to generate offset credits that they can sell."
This creates a market for selling beef cattle credits. They have to sell the credits to someone. Do you think a company that is also engaging in these incentives would buy the credits? Or maybe the credits would be purchased by companies that aren't helping the environment? It's the second one, btw.
Now this is whataboutism.
lol
Whatabout a better argument? This is like worrying about a guy smoking a cigarette while the town is burning down.
Wrongo. Carbon emissions are nowhere near as damaging to our continued life on earth as much as the waste dumping that's destroying the oceans. So this is a minor issue on the lesser issue of climate change. The only reason anyone cares about carbon emissions is because carbon tax credits are a huge market. No one is discussing how to stop dumping waste.