Transportation makes up 25% of the carbon emissions worldwide.
Cows make up like 8%.
The US military is the world's largest polluter. Most of their most serious crime against the environment is detonation of nuclear warheads.
Cows make up like 8%.
The US military is the world's largest polluter. Most of their most serious crime against the environment is detonation of nuclear warheads.
* Transportation: 28%
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...
* Livestock is 14.5% of all GHG emissions, cows are 65% of that:
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/197623/icode/
* Stories on how the US Military is the world' biggest polluters:
https://www.newsweek.com/2014/07/25/us-department-defence-on...
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/08/15/the-worlds-w...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/america-is-the-worst...
Regarding specifically my nuclear detonation comment:
https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-240876060...
In addition, the U.S., which has conducted more nuclear weapons tests than all other nations combined, is also responsible for the massive amount of radiation that continues to contaminate many islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Marshall Islands, where the U.S. dropped more than sixty nuclear weapons between 1946 and 1958, are a particularly notable example. Inhabitants of the Marshall Islands and nearby Guam continue to experience an exceedingly high rate of cancer.
The American Southwest was also the site of numerous nuclear weapons tests that contaminated large swaths of land. Navajo Indian reservations have been polluted by long-abandoned uranium mines where nuclear material was obtained by U.S. military contractors.
TLDR: there's more to greenhouse gas then pollution from power plants. And nuclear power isn't problem free.
And the best case scenario is burning it somehow in which case it just has a CO2 byproduct
The EPA says its Global Warming Potential over 100 years is 28-36 times CO2 [1]. 100 years sounds like a very relevant time period to me.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane#Patterns_o...
[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warmin...
https://theconversation.com/yes-eating-meat-affects-the-envi...
> All of agriculture accounted for a total of 9 percent. All of animal agriculture contributes less than half of this amount, representing 3.9 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
> To its credit, the FAO immediately owned up to its error. Unfortunately, the agency’s initial claim that livestock was responsible for the lion’s share of world greenhouse gas emissions had already received wide coverage.