A number of incorrect (although pretty unimportant) claims within the meme right here:
Cow poop creates biodiversity. Mistaken. See hyperlink.
The lifecycle of grass takes CO2 out of the air and replaces it with oxygen. All through a 24-hour cycle, the intakes and outputs of CO2 and oxygen from inexperienced vegetation steadiness themselves. Sure, an infinitesimally small quantity of CO2 is sequestered for a comparatively quick time frame within the grass that the cow eats, which is rereleased when the cow is processed. That is why rising bushes (vs. grass) makes an actual distinction, i.e., the CO2 is sequestered in wooden that may be locked into constructing merchandise lasting many years and even centuries.
The meat business is the one most harmful factor we do with the respect to the planet’s well being. That’s as a result of:
a) The land we’re utilizing comes largely from the destruction of the Earth’s rainforests, also known as the planet’s “lungs,” that are being torn aside on the fee of 85 acres per minute, and
b) Each cow on Earth belches ~220 kilos of methane per 12 months, a greenhouse gasoline that’s shorter-lived than CO2, however ~28 instances extra highly effective.
Invoice Gates is only one, albeit an especially seen one, of the various hundreds of thousands of people who find themselves involved about and taking accountability for the planet’s well being. Actually, there are greater than 200,000 teams on Earth whose mission is environmental justice.
Gates comes at this explicit downside by way of quite a lot of efforts to scale back meat consumption by way of the promotion of plant-based and lab-grown meat, public relations, and so forth.
