@Sheril

Aside from being ignorant, what’s with Muskivite’s little photo? The ‘Fascist’ stare into the distance of a golden future? He’s got more money than brains.

@Sheril

As if we needed more proof the #ElongatedMuskrat is a complete #dumbass

@Sheril I think what people always forget is that carbon models are always compartmentalized — but good production touches *everything*. And conventional farming uses *tons* of fossil fuels, at every step in the process.

Also, deforestation is a huge problem in terms of both new emissions but also our ability to sequester old ones.

@Sheril

Agreed. While Musk is correct that reliance on oil, coal, and gas is a big contributor to GG emissions, he's wrong to negate our current agricultural practices' contribution to GG emissions (particularly the overproduction of meat). I myself am vegan, and I feel that society needs to lower its meat consumption to help lower GG emissions.

@Sheril I assumed that he was wrong because

1) he's usually wrong

and

2) even my limited knowledge of agriculture led me to believe that it has a significant impact on climate.

Thank you for the expert point of view.

@Sheril I wonder how he thinks fossil fuels get into the atmosphere, without involving processes on the Earth's surface. All of the industries and transportation vehicles and farms are on the surface. If humans on the surface didn't use fossil fuels, we wouldn't be digging them up in the first place. Oil isn't just magically evaporating from deep underground, skipping the surface and messing up the atmosphere.

Sure we can ignore Elon, but this nonsense got millions of views

@Sheril

First Musk came for high speed rail and then I knew he was full of sh*t.

https://amp.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article264451076.html

@Sheril A significant, if not predominant, proportion of carbon footprint within the “#food system” comes from direct or indirect usage of fossil fuels, which include energy supply, fertilisers, supply chain and logistics, packaging / plastics, cooking and serving etc.

Therefore, from a purely scientific perspective, I am not sure your challenge to Musk’s statement stands as you might be speaking of similar things just in different terms.

@Sheril

This tells us that Mr Musk doesn't spend much time in the countryside.

Has he ever, on a hot sunny summer's day, walked across a ploughed field and into a natural forest? Or perhaps flown a glider over a similar landscape?

Well if he has, then he is either unobservant, or just plain dumb.

@Sheril

It would have been more entertaining had he blamed Hobbits or Norwegian trolls digging for gold, and, so it seems, just as accurate.

(Why do so many combines burn to a crisp in fields lately?)

@Sheril He's put himself in a position where his main source of income has to do with electric cars (i.e. relying on concern about climate change) while he simultaneously desperately wants to be loved by a group of people who think that climate change is a woke conspiracy.

So now he's trying to find some way to reconcile those two unreconcilable positions.

@Sheril

If you are still at Twitter, you are supporting Elon Musk and his dirty doings.