I don’t like to mention that rich guy over at #Twitter, but he’s rambling on about #ClimateChange & agriculture, which is in my wheelhouse. And he is also unabashedly & absurdly wrong.
Misinformation on climate change is irresponsible & dangerous, so let’s be clear:
25% to 30% of global emissions come from our #food system.
As UT Austin’s Michael Webber describes, agriculture is a major cause, victim and - importantly - meaningful solution to #climate change.
While agriculture’s role in #climate change is often ignored, climate solutions related to that sector are largely 1) already available 2) scalable & 3) significant.
Think precision (aka “smart”) agriculture, breeding crops for drought & heat tolerance, limiting soil erosion through farming practices that don’t disrupt soil structure, emerging alternative proteins, reducing food waste. And on and on… /2
@Sheril
We need to be exploring, screening and implementing solutions globally and cooperatively - as if human life depended on it!
Unfortunately, so much money and power is dependent on the status quo that the most powerful people on the planet are steering us all towards ignorance, stupidity and division.
Let's resist together!
Join the side of cooperation, exploration and intelligence.
@Sheril Farming in Canada continues to change, the family farm is disappearing being replaced with large corporate agriculture operations as smaller farms fail to be competitive with larger operations. Policy can influence this, but money talks loudly. https://www.nfu.ca/campaigns/farmland-ownership/
@Sheril Do no-till techniques offer significant mitigation?
I've seen the claim made by some, and intuitively it makes sense. If you tilled the mountains you'd destroy the fertility of the plains, but that's not quite the same cycle.
@Sheril While we're not the solution to the problem, we're humbly trying to be part of the solution. We've designed an antenna linked to a sensor capable of harvesting electromagnetic waves and converting them into electrical power. This will reduce the number of lithium-ion batteries in an electric car by a staggering 85%. An effective step towards reducing reliance on this highly polluting and unethical system for storing energy.
@Sheril why do people listen to rich people, like they must be smart? No, it probably means they are sociopaths skilled at exploiting others and nothing more. Frankly the human race is doomed. Capitalism has fucked us all and it won’t stop until the planet is a lifeless burnt crisp.
@Sheril
Melon Pusk is indeed an Oes.
His progression from prick to veritable cactus is progressing at an exponential rate.
Clearly he embraces the hole digging skills of Il Douche of Mar-a-Lagostan, Mango man himself.
@Sheril Would that still be the case if there were no fossil fuels used in agriculture? I know that deforestation and topsoil loss are both important carbon problems to solve, but I had been under the (not terribly informed) impression that most of ag's climate change sins were directly due to fossil fuel usage.
.@Sheril I was going to .buy a Tesla until I found out Musk was a Trump supporter, that kind of put the breaks on that. I'm now more likely to buy a VW ot Mercedes EV now.
@Sheril
Elon Space Karen has been dangerous for some time now but still we see people all over the #Twitter hanging from chandeliers and throwing feces.
"Everyone puhleeeze buy Tesla stock. I really f---ed up the money with my legendarily horrendous business mgmt & ignorant AF tweets & need all you low IQ lemmings to put me back in the black.
I mean, y'all were stupid enough to listen to me when I shilled for crypto so maybe you'll do it again for Tesla. That's the reason I bought Twitter after all. I want a megaphone I control so I can manipulate markets.
@Sheril You need fossil oil to produce fuels and fertilizers to run the modern agriculture, though. It all is a photon-catalyzed oil-to-food converter basically.
@Sheril As someone who knows very little about this, I was astonished by a couple of articles I read a month or so ago, both about carbon and agriculture. I hope that, if you don't already know about them, they'll be of interest. And thank you for combating the misinformation.
@Sheril it's funny how money makes mediocre wyt men think they're experts on everything. the fact they don't gaf that they spread lies is interesting too. i kinda thought i'd be free of musk by leaving tweeter but ffs, that guy loves shoving his head up his arse and screaming to the world "lookit me, lookit ME!" he's so aesthetically displeasing to my eye though, that i find it makes me slightly 🤢 to do so.
@Sheril I have noticed that among his fans the things that he says are instantly facts beyond reproach. I have one in my wheelhouse that keeps harping on our depopulation crises. He's not a scientist nor are his fan boys. Elon has a bachelor's in the arts. It's not a total waste though, he does paint a pretty good picture of a total douche.
@Sheril that Truthy
Hot Take of his certainly resonates well with his other company’s brilliant intervention to swap out the fuel source and change as little as possible about the mobility and transport system…
@Sheril I appreciate you don’t want to spread misinformation as you say in your alt text for this image as the reason you haven’t added what Musk said but presumably sighted people can see it, therefore az a blind person I’d like the same access to that information
@Sheril while his tweet reads like a marketing ploy for his followers to focus on buying Teslas, he’s flying around on his private jet burning more fuel than the rest of us 🫠
@Sheril I don't want to defend Musk. To me it seems like taking carbon from the ground and putting it into the atmosphere is quite general. This is the reason for why energy production emits so much CO2 and why the transportation sector emits so much CO2.
What are the biggest contributors to climate change in the agriculture sector that don't rely on fossil fuel energy? And how do they compare?
..."climate change is due to moving billions of tons of carbon from deep underground into the atmosphere"....
freudian slip...is that a reference to SpaceX ?
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