California to regulate cow farts.... somehow

>>73750
Good. Methane needs to be regulated because it accounts for about 11 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. (as of 2014)

>>73750
>>73752
We have already plunged past the point of no return when it comes to the environment. The world is essentially fucked and there is quite literally nothing that can be done anymore.

>>73765
>We have already plunged past the point of no return
>there is quite literally nothing that can be done anymore.
[citation needed]

>>73765
>we should hasten our demise
You're going to die one day, so you should just kill yourself now

>>73750
The only way you could honestly do it (besides genetically altering the cows digestive system or something), is to keep all the cows in a structure or erect a structure over paddocks such that it has a ton of fans to pull in fresh air, while containing an elaborate air filtration that pulls out all the methane and treats it or stores it for sale or something.

>>73978
nah you just tack on an additional carbon tax to cattle farmers, forcing them to fold or move. Cause California hates money.

>>73989
The linked article is vague on what it implements, but i found this from the Christian Science Monitor, so take that how you will:
>In California, dairy farmers will be required to reduce methane emissions from manure to 40 percent below their 2013 levels by 2030. They will receive $50 million from the fees the state collects from polluters through its cap-and-trade program. The funding will go toward buying methane digesters, which generate energy from the methane in manure. The energy will be sold to electrical utilities.

>The law also allows the Air Resources Board to regulate cow flatulence if a practical technology exists to reduce it.

Ignoring the second point; atm you can capture and treat methane (see covered waste dumps) but that's for shit that isn't fucking alive, so unless farmers build the structures i said before, to reduce the methane by 40% of what they make now, that just means reducing the number of cows by 40%...

why dont we just make a hole in the north ozone the let all these farts escape?

>>73998
>a hole that expels dangerous gasses
Where'd you get that idea?

>>73750
>California to regulate cow farts.... somehow

Average per cow.

>>74064
Which means - it's just another fucking tax.

>>74066
taxes pay for things the state needs, like schools and roads and high sped rail lines.

>>74079
And throwing our irrigation water out into the ocean and paying for all those new undocumented Democrat constituents.

>>74083
>all those new undocumented Democrat constituents
They pay for themselves in sales tax, Anon.

>>74079
All of those things are going to shit though and we're never getting that bullshit bullet train.

>>74093
I agree that The Big One will come sooner than the train will.

>>73750
commiefornians have officially reached a new low

>>74092
your gonna need a theft tax also

>>73750
NEETS like you are going to be forced into jobs as fart counters.

>>73978
GMO maybe?

>>74079
>taxes pay for things the state needs, like schools and roads and high sped rail lines.
All of which violate human rights!

>>73998
more like south ozone

>>74079
I don't know if this is sarcastic or not because California couldn't manage those things if they actually had the money.

>>73750
Thank liberalism for this stupidity.

>>73978
Potentially changing their diet?

Or just taxing beef/dairy. Less cow products = less cows = less cow farts

Also it's actually belching that's a bigger problem than farting from livestock

>>74614
Don't they literally just eat grass and hay or something?
>Just tax beef/diary
And fuck farmers over and also the customer since the prices will be higher?

Look at all these outraged bozos! Playing armchair scientist, are we?

How about you do a bit of googleing, before twisting your panties and blasting off to lala-land?

http://beef.unl.edu/reduce-methane-production-cattle

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/getting-creative-cut-methane-cows

We have the technology. Whoever is working on a comprehensive feeding solution for reducing cow emissions, right now, will be a millionaire soon. Bunch of naysaying losers.

>>73820
this guy gets it