How Regenerative Farming Can Beat Methane

With beef production alone accounting for 40% of global methane emissions, how do we reinvent mass farming practices? In this guest segment from Getting Warmer With Kal Penn, climate storyteller Jack Harries explores ways of implementing regenerative farming practices into our industrial farming industry.

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[METAL-FARMER]

There is so much misinformation in this video. Then again, what do I know. I'm only one tiny cog in the giant agricultural machine. It is frustrating how so many point fingers at "the problem" yet so few are working to solve it. Regenerative agriculture, sustainable agriculture are so much more involved than throwing the words around. I work in the plant based proteins field. There are many challenges that need to be addressed before we can feed the world differently. Be well.

[rajshakumar]

1 minute of content 5 minutes of fluff.

[loganholmberg]

look up the grasslands project in Saskatchewan. most of north America used to be covered in billions pf bison and deer species. they've been finding grass fed cattle help bring back those ecosystems to viability [not destroying as previously thought] providing habitat back to endangered species and in general making the land they live on more healthy.
we can get rid of the cattle but that in turn would destroy the grasslands we have left. we could put the bison back but then you still have animals producing methane. the answer is not as simple as stop cattle farming.

[RogerGoll]

they talk about cow farts, but they don't talk about the arctic and tons of cubic meters a day of gas coming out of permafrost.

[ArianrhodTalon]

2:12 If anything, this comparison highlights why carbon is more problematic than methane instead.

[bussingwithbain]

I call bulls1t!! Methane, can run 50% of your power off it for your farm. Then what's left is fertilizer

[YVM]

Regenrative ag and keeping roots in the ground allows carbon to stay in ground. All plants put carbon on the ground but tilting and traditional mono rolling literally releases all carbon back up when they harvest and tilt the ground. A mixed plants and livestock mimicking. Nature patterns allows carbon to stay in the ground.

[노다지-zf]

# We who have condemned socialism - governments support insolvent banks and corporations?

[JordanFreshour]

Cow farts are a joke and I can’t take this issue serious.

[hoperesnick]

It's clear to me that we need to go back to feeding cattle what they were meant to eat:. GRASS NOT GRAINS!!

[JJs_playground]

I thought there were around 7billion cows, 7billion pigs and 20billion chickens.

[chris]

Notice these yahoos pretend other animals don't exist when it comes to "farts"

[Alex_Plante]

The challenge is to shift away from industrial agriculture to less labour-productive permaculture and regenerative agriculture, all the while maintaining the high yields (land-productivity) needed to feed the population.

[odoylerules]

we're already past the tipping point so it really is moot once you understand methane belching from thawing permafrost

[B]

Proud of you guys for putting this knowledge out there. Spent the last year of my life learning many hours a day about microbes and how crucial they are. If we just let them do what they've been doing for 3.5 billion years, we can get back to the real roots of farming

[OldScientist]

CH4 is only 0.00019% (1.9 parts per million) of the atmosphere. Both of its narrow absorption bands occur at wavelengths where H2O is already absorbing substantially. Hence, any radiation that CH4 might absorb has already been absorbed by H2O. With the concentration of water vapour in the atmosphere being between 1, 000 and 20, 000 times greater than CH4, the effects of CH4 are completely masked by H2O.

[phonggt]

That last part about growing population is false. Our human species will hit a peak soon. Birth rates are lower than ever. Some countries like China and Japan are on a decline and majority of their population is the elderly. It's especially pretty bad in Japan where their younger generation prefer to hide away in their apartments and not socialize.

[KenGray]

Try and picture city-folk shutting up about things they know nothing about.
🤦🏿

[alanmay]

Let's also not forget food waste which is about 1/3 of worldwide production

[owenjennings]

Some of your "facts" are plainly wrong. There are 200 CO2 molecules for each methane molecule and 10, 000 water vapour molecules for each methane molecule in most areas and the 80 X potency is hugely misleading. Try reading Happer and Wijngaarden.