Why does this Öko-Institut care about reducing emissions in farming?
https://mastodon.social/@oekoinstitut/111782856110691806
According to https://www.mdr.de/wissen/deutschland-top-fuenf-klima-emissionen-100.html emissions of farming is negligible. Even if they change anything, probably with great effort, they wouldn’t change anything. They are the least who need to care.
Death by 1000 paper cuts. If everyone looks at their sector and says they are irrelevant in the broader picture, then no one will change.
Even the worst polluters can rationalise themselves with just a little mental gymnastics.
In the US, farming accounts for something like 10% of GHG emissions. Industry is the largest producer, but it “only” accounts for 30%, which is a lot, but it’s only 3x agriculture.
Yes, and Germany will probably not be too dissimilar. The difference in magnitude here comes from just looking at directly emitted CO² vs all greenhouse gase emissolns in general. If you add all those up, methane emissions particularly, the picture becomes a very different one. This is also what the oeko institur is talking about their post (emissions from lifestock), so it makes sense to care about that.
Already mentioned this in a subcomment. Your graph is about CO² specifically. The oeko institut talks about emissions from lifestock, which is mostly methane and a very significant and potent overall contribution to global warming.
Little impact > no impact.
If only acting as a role model to the relevant industry.
Why should I not kill somebody? In Germany, there were a bit over 200 murders last year. One more would be less than 1/2 %. And globally it is really negligible. Same logic!
