Kind of. I was referring to the last UK election, each party leader was at the podium promising TEN million trees. Then the next one was like oh yeah? well we're promising TWENTY million. And they would just try and one up each other even though the numbers made no sense given that the UK is hell bent on paving over the entire landscape with housing no matter what party you have in power

going vegan

I remember somewhere hearing a pretty decent argument against some of these calculations. I can't remember all the details but basically, cows are pretty efficient to turn into beef. 50-100 gallons of water compared to 500 gallons for the same amount in rice - and almost all the water in cow's lives is rainwater. Food is grass or leftovers, etc.

It's kinda like how Bitcoin consumes an insane amount of power, but most that power is leftover scrap energy from other sources that would otherwise go to waste.

I wish I remembered what they said about greenhouse gas emissions but cows are surely among the worst for that either way... until we crack the almost cracked puzzle of fart control!