It ain’t the emissions, it’s the land use. About 40% of the USA’s land is used for animal agriculture. Another 8% is for literally all the other crops. Stop eating meat, and we could return about a third of the land in the US to nature, or other uses. That’s a lot of carbon capture / solar power plants etc.
That’s a good point, though there’s a significant financial barrier to building renewable infrastructure that doesn’t go away just because land is available.
It ain’t the emissions, it’s the land use. About 40% of the USA’s land is used for animal agriculture. Another 8% is for literally all the other crops. Stop eating meat, and we could return about a third of the land in the US to nature, or other uses. That’s a lot of carbon capture / solar power plants etc.
That’s a good point, though there’s a significant financial barrier to building renewable infrastructure that doesn’t go away just because land is available.