In Scotland?
> The problematic carbons are those that are additional - those once buried across the course of millions of years, some millions of years ago and now being bought to the surface in an extremely short timescale (one century and half, roughly)
Meat production accounts for somewhere between 15 and 20% of human emissions. It is a significant part of the problem.
> the gas creation ratios can be tweaked by the paths taken.
To a point. Producing and consuming meat is gonna emit carbon. This isn’t disputable.
Already answered. Engage brain, treat it as a puzzle.
> Meat production accounts for somewhere between 15 and 20% of human emissions. It is a significant part of the problem.
Is it? Or is it just cycling the carbon in the land / sea close surface layer?
> To a point.
The point being it is something that can be modified and addressed.
> Producing and consuming meat is gonna emit carbon.
Recycle carbon, rather than dredge up and release fossil carbon might be a better framing for any wanting to get to the root of the issue.
> and consuming meat
Shooting and eating kangaroos, feral camels, goats, donkeys, clean skin bulls, etc. somehow adds in a significant manner to AGW ?
Are you _sure_ about that?
We know it isn't. Immense amounts of crops like alfalfa are grown, with extensive fertilizing via petroleum products, to feed inefficiently to cattle.
> The point being it is something that can be modified and addressed.
It's enough of a fight over clearly-better extant solutions like solar. The near-term fix to climate change isn't gonna be evolving cows to burp less.
> Recycle carbon, rather than dredge up and release fossil carbon might be a better framing for any wanting to get to the root of the issue.
This describes a tiny percentage of cattle raising practices.
> Shooting and eating kangaroos, feral camels, goats, donkeys, clean skin bulls, etc. somehow adds in a significant manner to AGW ?
This describes a tiny percentage of meat production. You're not going to feed Australia off the kangaroo population, let alone the world.
Only if you assume that the finger-in-the-air guesswork around how much emissions you get from livestock is correct.
What do you think would be better?
Less meat? 10-50x as many calories per ton of CO2 generated.