Food waste in general shouldn't be adding extra CO2 in the environment, unless they are extrinsically adding tons of CO2 to the system from e.g. synthetic chemicals derived from oil.
First of all, you *do* use synthetic chemicals derived from oil in agriculture -- well, more accurately, from natural gas (ammonia). Second, you *also* use extra amounts of oil-derived fuel to grow this waste food. And third, of course, there's also the issue of methane being much more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, so even if you're neutral in terms of (physical) CO2 consumed and produced, you're still not necessarily neutral in terms of CO2-equivalent GHG emissions.
and water is a much stronger greenhouse gas than methane.
The antihumanists should just unite behind water, pretty sure people are so dumb now they can be convinced to stop drinking and get all this over with quickly.
and water is a much stronger greenhouse gas than methane.
I honestly can't tell is this post is clueless, a troll, irony, deliberate disinformation, or is intended as an example of "a stupid argument" mentioned in the comment subject .
Yes, water is a greenhouse gas. But oceans full of water are exposed to the atmosphere continously; it's not a greenhouse gas that humans are significantly adding to the atmosphere. And it equilibrates out of the atmosphere on a time scale of hours to days-- we call this "rain".
The stupidity would depend on how much you trust the media to tell you its also safe. I'd wager on what we've seen recently that enough people are actually stupid enough to be convinced its safe despite all the evidence to the contrary as to blindly do exactly what they are told.
There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing.
Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score:1, Insightful)
Food waste in general shouldn't be adding extra CO2 in the environment, unless they are extrinsically adding tons of CO2 to the system from e.g. synthetic chemicals derived from oil.
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Re: Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score:1)
and water is a much stronger greenhouse gas than methane.
The antihumanists should just unite behind water, pretty sure people are so dumb now they can be convinced to stop drinking and get all this over with quickly.
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and water is a much stronger greenhouse gas than methane.
I honestly can't tell is this post is clueless, a troll, irony, deliberate disinformation, or is intended as an example of "a stupid argument" mentioned in the comment subject .
Yes, water is a greenhouse gas. But oceans full of water are exposed to the atmosphere continously; it's not a greenhouse gas that humans are significantly adding to the atmosphere. And it equilibrates out of the atmosphere on a time scale of hours to days-- we call this "rain".
Re: Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score:1)
The idea was that getting people to stop drinking would solve climate change faster than getting them to stop eating.
Re: Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score:2)
The idea was that getting people to stop drinking would solve climate change faster than getting them to stop eating.
Indeed, that is a stupid idea.
What you didn't make clear is whether you posted that because you were stupid, or because you were showing it as an example of a stupid idea.
Re: Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score:1)
its an effective idea.
The stupidity would depend on how much you trust the media to tell you its also safe. I'd wager on what we've seen recently that enough people are actually stupid enough to be convinced its safe despite all the evidence to the contrary as to blindly do exactly what they are told.