from Brian Brettschnieder (PhD climatologist, @Climatologist49@fediscience.org) in this toot
I wonder how fucked we are if you look further back than industrialization, to pre cattle domestication. Add up all the cow farts from the past 10,000 years and I’m sure it’s worse than we realize.
I don’t think it would be that bad, there used to be many less people and those people would eat much less meat. There would still be quite a few cow-like animals farting whether humans existed or not, it’s probably a sustainable rate for the ecosystem.
Fair points all around. But there’s definitely a tipping point somewhere that it becomes unsustainable and unatural
Can’t imagine the smell
You never drove past a farm/ranch? Lol
I doubt that, pre-industrial farming there were wayyy less people. And on its own, methane wouldn’t be anywhere near enough to make a dent, so I don’t see there being a big impact on the climate via greenhouse gases before we started burning fossil fuels (it doesn’t really add up, either, since methane dissolves after a while in the atmosphere).