Yes, obviously AI is emitting way too much. It shouldn’t even be producing 0.2% of global emissions, let alone 2%. My main grievance is that no one ever talks about improving industrial and agricultural processes even though they produce around 29% of emissions and 20% of emissions respectively.

  • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
    8·
    17 hours ago

    Well in the agricultural sense the only thing we can do is to make more people vegetarian (not really happening)/and make more affordable plant based milk. The latter one is actually in here already! I’ve seen plant based milks not that much more expensive than a cow’s milk in Hungary.

    • saturn57@lemmy.worldOP
      101·
      17 hours ago

      While switching to plant based food is an obvious course of action which would have drastic benefits, several other methods exist by which agricultural emissions. These include:

      • Livestock diet changes to reduce methane production
      • More accurate fertilizer application to reduce nitrous oxide production
      • Draining rice paddies to reduce production of methane by anaerobic microbes
      • No till farming to allow more carbon to be stored in the soil
      • Farm equipment electrification
      • Crops bred for higher yield or lower resource usage