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Microsoft buys over $1B worth of poop to counter pollution caused by AI - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)

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[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 58 points 5 days ago (1 children)

“Generally, what happens to these wastes today is they go to a landfill, get dumped in a waterway, or they’re just spread on land,” said Vaulted Deep CEO Julia Reichelstein. “In all of those cases, they’re decomposing into CO2 and methane. That’s contributing to climate change.”

Waste decomposition is part of the natural carbon cycle. Burning fossil fuels isn't. We should not be suppressing part of the natural cycle so we can supplant it with our own processes. This is Hollywood accounting applied to carbon emissions, and it's not going to solve anything.

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Waste decomposition is part of the natural carbon cycle

Partially true. Factory farm animals are not natural.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

But their shit comes from plants and they get their carbon from the air.
The unnatural additions to that cycle are fertilizers (more nitrates than normal) and complex organic chemicals (pesticides, antibiotics, ...). The carbon cycle is undisturbed by them.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't know, animals sound pretty natural to me. Maybe the walls aren't, but I don't think that's what you meant

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago

Majority of livestock animals would not survive without humans.