How many cows are we allowed in a carbon neutral world?
Everyone is talking about net-zero by 2050, but it is not as simple a phrase as it might seem. Atmospheric physicist and fellow YouTuber ClimateAdam joins me in this video to talk through the finer details, which for some reason I kept consistently bringing back to the topic of cows.
We talked negative emissions, whether we should wait for technology to improve before we start getting serious about reductions, and whether methane is more or less of a worry than carbon dioxide.
00:00 Intro
02:59 What do we mean by "net" zero
04:02 Nature doesn't count
05:17 Negative emissions
06:53 Carbon dioxide vs methane and emissions from aviation
09:24 Why 2050? What are the assumptions?
10:47 Do the easy stuff right now
11:57 Filling up a glass analogy
13:10 Rosie's net-zero philosophy
Posted by Guest Author on Wednesday, 11 August, 2021
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