Microsoft buys over $1B worth of poop to counter pollution caused by AI - Dexerto
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“Generally, what happens to these wastes today is they go to a landfill, get dumped in a waterway, or they’re just spread on land,” said Vaulted Deep CEO Julia Reichelstein. “In all of those cases, they’re decomposing into CO2 and methane. That’s contributing to climate change.”
Waste decomposition is part of the natural carbon cycle. Burning fossil fuels isn't. We should not be suppressing part of the natural cycle so we can supplant it with our own processes. This is Hollywood accounting applied to carbon emissions, and it's not going to solve anything.
Waste decomposition is part of the natural carbon cycle
Partially true. Factory farm animals are not natural.
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You're all being negative and funny about it, but have you considered you may not know better than hundreds of actual scientists?
I'm just saying, this shit is indeed hilarious, but I'm thinking they're on to something.
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You're all being negative and funny about it, but have you considered you may not know better than hundreds of actual scientists?
I'm just saying, this shit is indeed hilarious, but I'm thinking they're on to something.
I think the point most people are trying to make is that the pollution should not exist in the first place, and also that carbon offsetting doesn't work as advertised.
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Waste decomposition is part of the natural carbon cycle
Partially true. Factory farm animals are not natural.
I don't know, animals sound pretty natural to me. Maybe the walls aren't, but I don't think that's what you meant
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I don't know, animals sound pretty natural to me. Maybe the walls aren't, but I don't think that's what you meant
Majority of livestock animals would not survive without humans.
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this is the episode of The Simpsons where homer becomes the waste management president and sells Springfield's underground to other cities for landfill use
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Literal Greenwashing.
Could easily do better.
Step 1: plant forests
Step 2: lobby for the protection of existing forests including the one just created. -
Literal Greenwashing.
Could easily do better.
Step 1: plant forests
Step 2: lobby for the protection of existing forests including the one just created.Step 3: stop wasting our resources on running a glorified predictive text algorithm.
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this is the episode of The Simpsons where homer becomes the waste management president and sells Springfield's underground to other cities for landfill use
Or the movie where he dumps the pig shit in the lake
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I think the point most people are trying to make is that the pollution should not exist in the first place, and also that carbon offsetting doesn't work as advertised.
I understand that perspective and do not subscribe to its logic.
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Waste decomposition is part of the natural carbon cycle
Partially true. Factory farm animals are not natural.
But their shit comes from plants and they get their carbon from the air.
The unnatural additions to that cycle are fertilizers (more nitrates than normal) and complex organic chemicals (pesticides, antibiotics, ...).
The carbon cycle is undisturbed by them.
