Comment by shevy-java
2 days ago
> if your burn the tree for fuel it also counts as 0 emissions since there wasn't any new carbon being dug up not was any carbon permanently sequestered.
Ok but ... that definition makes not a whole lot of sense, right?
The only thing that should be considered is CO2 in the atmosphere / troposphere.
I think the idea is that the CO2 emitted from burning the tree is the same as is removed by the tree growing, so it cancels out. The tree is effectively a capacitor.
Fairly irrelevant when it comes to cattle though, as it's the methane that's the problem there.
You're going to get the methane anyway, even if you let all the plant matter the cows eat sit and rot.
Eh. Except there's a huge industrial ag machine creating cow-food, that wouldn't be doing that without the cows.
No, methane is a human-originated problem, and hand-waving won't change that.
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