Comments on: “Can We Get To Zero Carbon?” FORUM Held in Pittsburgh on Jan. 29, 2019 https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/02/04/%e2%80%9ccan-we-get-to-zero-carbon%e2%80%9d-forum-held-in-pittsburgh-on-jan-29-2019/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tom Bond https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2019/02/04/%e2%80%9ccan-we-get-to-zero-carbon%e2%80%9d-forum-held-in-pittsburgh-on-jan-29-2019/#comment-227038 Tom Bond Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:52:14 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=26939#comment-227038 This is lots to consider in getting to Zero. There are several things not being being mentioned in these discussions. Agriculture has a conversation about livestock farming. I've seen claims from 4 to 40% of the CO2 being produced worldwide by domestic animals. (I suspect vegetarians are responsible for some of this.) Long distance movement of food is another contributor. Grain production is concentrated in the Upper Midwest and is heavily mechanized, for example. Winter food from Mexico and Central America even the East Indies make a contribution. Another area is off-road machinery, such as pipeline, road, mining and farming equipment. They require a lot of energy. Coal fired electricity is a significant problem. A third is the military, with tanks, movement of supplies, ships, airplanes. Look who many of our national enemies are: Iran, Russia, for starters, and look what we do in Libya and Venezuela, Nigeria and many others. Look what we put up with in Saudi Arabia. Military power depends on oil products. This generates CO2 and other pollutants. S. Tom Bond, Lewis County, WV This is lots to consider in getting to Zero.

There are several things not being being mentioned in these discussions. Agriculture has a conversation about livestock farming. I’ve seen claims from 4 to 40% of the CO2 being produced worldwide by domestic animals. (I suspect vegetarians are responsible for some of this.)

Long distance movement of food is another contributor. Grain production is concentrated in the Upper Midwest and is heavily mechanized, for example. Winter food from Mexico and Central America even the East Indies make a contribution.

Another area is off-road machinery, such as pipeline, road, mining and farming equipment. They require a lot of energy. Coal fired electricity is a significant problem.

A third is the military, with tanks, movement of supplies, ships, airplanes. Look who many of our national enemies are: Iran, Russia, for starters, and look what we do in Libya and Venezuela, Nigeria and many others. Look what we put up with in Saudi Arabia. Military power depends on oil products. This generates CO2 and other pollutants.

S. Tom Bond, Lewis County, WV

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