PieFedClimate-Warming Methane Emissions from the World’s Biggest Livestock Companies Are Bigger Than From Major Oil and Gas Companies
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Ahead of the United Nations climate talks in Brazil, advocacy groups are pushing for companies and governments to set meaningful emissions targets to lower emissions from livestock.
The world’s biggest meat and dairy companies are responsible for emitting more climate-warming methane than all of the countries in the European Union and United Kingdom combined, according to a new assessment published Monday.
They looked at 45 major livestock and dairy companies, finding that they generated about 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2023—roughly the same amount as reported for Saudi Arabia, the world’s second largest oil producer.
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JecogeoAnd what government, what regulation, is actually in the mood to face these companies? Call me a pessimist, but this COP in Belém will be another fiasco. Zero commitment to the future. Capitalism has more urgent and important matters.
Given that even suggesting that governments put pressure to lower meat consumption causes people to flip their shit and rail against “blaming common people when you could be blaming The Rich TM”, I don’t have a lot of faith there. People want everyone else to give up anything that could cause harm because “no cost is too high”, but then refuse to make even the slightest change themselves.
If the only reason you are continuing to contribute to the problem is because the government isn’t forcing you to stop, you are part of the problem. (’You’ is general colloquial here, not referring to you Jecogeo, sorry if that is confusing.)
Yeah… sure. I think I could say I agree. In the best case scenario we have both civil society organized for changes we want to see in the world and govs committed to a better future (instead of committing to profits of few TMs). This is kind of a synergy: if the people don’t urges for something, govs won’t act by good faith. The opposite is true: sometimes technical and scientific positions of some politicians can change how general population sees an issue.
The fact is: Isolated personal choices won’t change the political and economical status. We have to be strong and well articulated as organized society to push politicians for change. Join small and big groups together for some causes. And that’s not easy. Usually it requires a strong leadership to “call for action”.
Because oil and gas don’t emit methane into the atmosphere if they can help it. It’s a sellable product to them.
I do agree that agriculture methane emissions should be dealt with, but the headline is misleading.
I don’t think it’s a misleading title because leaks are considered emissions.
The leaks from oil & gas are huge to begin with, and some of them are even called super-emitting methane leaks. From another article:
Not only that these leaks and are not visible to the naked eye, so