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A Texas Dairy Ranks Among the State’s Biggest Methane Emitters. But Don’t Ask the EPA or the State About It (insideclimatenews.org)
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[–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

@silence7 @empiricism Research has also shown that cutting meat & dairy consumption worldwide would liberate an area of land equivalent to the whole of Africa. That land could be returned to nature and could absorb 16 years worth of global grewnhouse gas emissions.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @leafn4give @silence7

    The potential is certainly there. As well as liberating land for wildlife, there can be zones used for growing food using agroecological farming methods, which can also provide habitat for a variety of wildlife & locations for housing.

    FYI, when you write "research has shown" please provide a weblink too that research, so that people that haven't read the relevant research & or science-based report can read it.

    Fundamentally, mono-industrial farming is unsustainable.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago*

    could be returned

    Yeah. Could be. It is not easy by any means. A lot of this land like large feedlots would need significant rehabilitation efforts. Further, pedological carbon sequestration is slow, and entirely microbially driven

    Even converting a hay crop to native prairie is a gargantuan effort.

    We really, really, need to manage our lands better and plan for scenarios where they can be used in ways other than their initial land use

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