Elon Musk erroneously downplays farming's climate impact

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Elon Musk erroneously downplays farming's climate impact
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🌍 Elon Musk claims farming has 'no meaningful impact on climate change.' This is misleading -- while burning greenhouse gases is the primary driver of global warming, scientists say food production still has a clear effect

Elon Musk claims farming and other activities on Earth's surface have"no meaningful impact on climate change.

" This is misleading; while burning greenhouse gases is the primary driver of global warming, scientists say food production still accounts for up to a third of carbon emissions"What happens on Earth's surface has no meaningful impact on climate change," the owner of Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX said in a June 25, 2023"Overwhelmingly, the risk of climate change is due to moving billions of tons of carbon from deep underground into the atmosphere.

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