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The answer to climate-killing cow farts may come from the sea

Grist

They soon discovered that static electricity had caused entrapped methane from the flatulence and manure of 90 dairy cows to explode. According to the United Nations , reducing methane emissions from cows could be one of the quickest ways to slow climate change. It can reverse ocean acidification by absorbing carbon dioxide.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

Prior to the Holocene , humans depended on large, cold-adapted animals for food such as the wooly mammoth; however, once the glaciers receded, humans hunted the last of the large mammals, and the planetary conditions began to warm, humans switched to hunting smaller game and increased their gathering of plants.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.