- keeping pareto s principle (not sure if its applicable here) what would be the one thing you could change today that ll cut down emissions or cabon dioxide accumulation by 80% tomorrow? or how about methane?
Kill the cows?! .... I mean, you did ask for radical steps that could be undertaken quickly. Aside from that, remember that the covid lockdowns led to a CO2 dent especially due to less traffic (car, planes..).
But yeah, even these steps would be too little, too late. But still, they would still help. We have to remember that steps undertaken now, even if small, do still help. This planet will be here in hundreds and hundreds of years, so humanity has to show within this century that it is wanting to be there, too. Right now it all feels like our civilization is a little too much yoloing...
I think that is the root of the problem, there is no one magick trick. We need to attack it from many angles, as each of them is weighting only a couple of percents. Reduce air traffic and reduce meat consumption and reduce fossil fuel for transportation and reduce deforestation...
I had explained here yet at least a couple of times why the seaweed plan will not work.
In short, Farting is a byproduct of the normal work of a healthy cow stomach. If your cows don't fart, the cows are starving and will not grow (neither well, nor fast enough). The milk may even have a funny taste, so your career as farmer will not last. The entire job of a farmer is to raise the cattle to market grade as fast as is biologically possible
Giving cows a diet of seaweed is like trying to breed your baby on a whole diet of painkillers and aspirin.
Economically it does not make sense either, because this seaweed are a scarce valuable resource. They are difficult to regenerate, expensive to harvest, and are sold yet to industry for <bigger amount of money>.
But don't trust me. The best proof that it will not work is that in 20 years nothing came of it.
I wouldn't advice to put any of your money on this idea that was obviously dumb from the start: Seaweeds are sought for their antibiotic properties, and cows need its gut microbiome alive to break the cellulose into sugars. Sold the seaweed and buy steaks instead with the money.
I dunno, the embargoes on Russian gas/oil and the restricted straight of Hormuz seem to be fueling the strongest transition into renewables and EVs that we've seen to date, they may end up being carbon-positive.
Some wildfires started in June, but the situation exploded after Ankara Summit in July 8 2026. Fires near Oslo, Ottawa, Toronto, Paris, Bordeaux, Madrid, Malaga, Naples, The West coast of US, Istambul. Yep even Turkey, the host of the NATO meeting is burning. All in just a couple of weeks.
Arsonists detained in France, Spain and UK. In Calabria there are even reports of cats with flammable soaked rags tied to its tails, set on fire and released in the fields, they had found also candles lit among flammable rags, and delayed ignition devices [1]. This is everything except a natural disaster. Hybrid war. Don't look no further.
NATO is burning. This is a fact. More than 5000 critical-level wildfires active in USA and Canada West coast.
China and Russia are doing relatively well at least. Except by Volgograd Oblast, that is boiling, and some Siberian activity below the expected average, most of Russia is quiet. China has less active wildfires than Spain.
And if you think that this, or the 652 wildfires in France and other 670 in Spain are bad, check the more than 30.000 critical-level wildfires active in Angola, Zambia and other African countries. African rainforest is a smoking disaster right now.
- keeping pareto s principle (not sure if its applicable here) what would be the one thing you could change today that ll cut down emissions or cabon dioxide accumulation by 80% tomorrow? or how about methane?
Kill the cows?! .... I mean, you did ask for radical steps that could be undertaken quickly. Aside from that, remember that the covid lockdowns led to a CO2 dent especially due to less traffic (car, planes..). But yeah, even these steps would be too little, too late. But still, they would still help. We have to remember that steps undertaken now, even if small, do still help. This planet will be here in hundreds and hundreds of years, so humanity has to show within this century that it is wanting to be there, too. Right now it all feels like our civilization is a little too much yoloing...
I think that is the root of the problem, there is no one magick trick. We need to attack it from many angles, as each of them is weighting only a couple of percents. Reduce air traffic and reduce meat consumption and reduce fossil fuel for transportation and reduce deforestation...
- what would be the global ramifications if let us say somehow we forced the entire world to go vegan tomorrow.
- what would happen to the economy in hot countries and cold countries.
- what would happen to countries that cannot or do not have farmable lands?
Methane eliminated at the source by feeding livestock seaweed. I heard about this 20 years ago but it's been crickets since...
Methane is 8x worse than co2, and can be spotted from space better and better with each new environmental satellite.
I had explained here yet at least a couple of times why the seaweed plan will not work.
In short, Farting is a byproduct of the normal work of a healthy cow stomach. If your cows don't fart, the cows are starving and will not grow (neither well, nor fast enough). The milk may even have a funny taste, so your career as farmer will not last. The entire job of a farmer is to raise the cattle to market grade as fast as is biologically possible
Giving cows a diet of seaweed is like trying to breed your baby on a whole diet of painkillers and aspirin.
Economically it does not make sense either, because this seaweed are a scarce valuable resource. They are difficult to regenerate, expensive to harvest, and are sold yet to industry for <bigger amount of money>.
But don't trust me. The best proof that it will not work is that in 20 years nothing came of it.
I wouldn't advice to put any of your money on this idea that was obviously dumb from the start: Seaweeds are sought for their antibiotic properties, and cows need its gut microbiome alive to break the cellulose into sugars. Sold the seaweed and buy steaks instead with the money.
Thank you!
Wildberries?
What is the point to save a bit of CO2 here and there, when Ukraine, Sudan and Iran wars are sending us to the Carboniferous firing on all cylinders?
I dunno, the embargoes on Russian gas/oil and the restricted straight of Hormuz seem to be fueling the strongest transition into renewables and EVs that we've seen to date, they may end up being carbon-positive.
What is making these spread? Is it lack of forest management / controlled burns, etc?
Some wildfires started in June, but the situation exploded after Ankara Summit in July 8 2026. Fires near Oslo, Ottawa, Toronto, Paris, Bordeaux, Madrid, Malaga, Naples, The West coast of US, Istambul. Yep even Turkey, the host of the NATO meeting is burning. All in just a couple of weeks.
Arsonists detained in France, Spain and UK. In Calabria there are even reports of cats with flammable soaked rags tied to its tails, set on fire and released in the fields, they had found also candles lit among flammable rags, and delayed ignition devices [1]. This is everything except a natural disaster. Hybrid war. Don't look no further.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-arsonists-used-cats...
Where does the source you refered to provide evidence of hybrid war?
The biggest fire in France has most likely accidental root cause (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feux_de_for%C3%AAt_de_2026_en_...)
NATO is burning. This is a fact. More than 5000 critical-level wildfires active in USA and Canada West coast.
China and Russia are doing relatively well at least. Except by Volgograd Oblast, that is boiling, and some Siberian activity below the expected average, most of Russia is quiet. China has less active wildfires than Spain.
And if you think that this, or the 652 wildfires in France and other 670 in Spain are bad, check the more than 30.000 critical-level wildfires active in Angola, Zambia and other African countries. African rainforest is a smoking disaster right now.
https://currentwildfires.com/en/