Methane rises to highest level on record

Re:Methane rises to highest level on record by gridlockd on Thursday July 16, 2020 @09:22AM (#23858710)

Compared to current amounts of cultivation, that sounds like a lot, but that is only the seaweed that humans consume.

Mass-scale seaweed production has been thrown around as a method for sequestering CO2.

Methane itself could be sequestered as well.

Either way, I'm fine with a beef tax to cover some of those costs, but lower-income groups might. I'm not keen on forcing an inferior diet on them.

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Re:Methane rises to highest level on record by andy_ppp on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:44AM (#23881344)

I still wonder about cap and trade on meat, each human gets X steaks per year but they can sell their steaks on an exchange. Having the quota separate from the price would be about help people who don’t have much money quite a bit. It would also lead to higher meat quality; what would the point of buying McDonalds with a piece of your quota worth fifty bucks.

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Re:Methane rises to highest level on record by ablation on Saturday July 18, 2020 @08:39AM (#23881013)

You can avoid eating beef without being "forced" an "inferior diet". In fact it would probably be better for people to NOT eat beef.

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Re:Methane rises to highest level on record by gridlockd on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:58AM (#23881416)

It is inferior by my standards, not yours. Your standards do not matter when it comes to my diet, and vice versa.

I am not forcing my standards on lower income people anyway, but supporting a tax that hurts them and not me seems wrong.

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