Trapping Deadly Gases

 THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY one billion head of cattle in the world, ninety five million in the United States. Each cow burps out about two hundred and forty pounds of methane gas every year, which they must do, or bloat and die. Methane is ninety time more harmful to the environment than carbon dioxide, ninety time the heat absorption. for every one foot of heat absorption accomplished by carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, methane absorbs seven and a half feet, metaphorically and actually. methane causes climate change seven and a half times more severely than CO2. Raising cattle requires enormous amounts of grain and water, grain and water we could eat and drink ourselves. Six hundred gallons of water are used in producing a single hamburger. Fuel companies drill thousands of oil wells eacy year, and since the natural gas and methane which are mixed in with the oil are insufficiently profitable, the two gases are simply released into the earth's atmosphere, to contribute to global warming, which is now beginning to reach alarming levels. Obama tried to stop this practice, Trump allowed it to continue, and now Biden is trying to stop it, although he has made it clear that he has no intention of banning oil fracking. Plainly, eliminating atmospheric methane pollution is crucial in stopping and reversing climate change and saving Earth's ecosystem, and humanity. Clearly, the cattle industry must be phases out, fast. for confirmation of this inconvenient but indisputable reality, consult and  professor of agriculture, any biologist, chemist, physicist, or climate scientist. the problem does not end there. The most prolific source of uncontrolled methane emissions is from the rapidly melting tundra beneath the rapidly melting polar ice caps, beneath which lies billions of tones of frozen organic matter the legacy of billions of year of the life and death cycle on Earth. with polar temperatures rising much more rapidly than the other continents, the decaying decomposing organic matter is releasing more methane into the atmosphere only human activities which must be curtailed. The next obvious necessary change is well publicized: the elimination of transportation systems and energy sources based on fossil fuels, oil, coal, and natural gas. encouragingly, that transformation is well under way, although well behind a desirable schedule and far enough advanced to inspire realistic hope. Planting trees worldwide is also being undertaken. At the beginning of neolithic civilization were was an estimated seven trillion trees in the world. that number has been cut in half, and until quite recently the decrease was about ten billion a year. But even if all the available land on Earth were covered with new forests, it would not be enough to remove the billions of tons of carbon from the air needed to stop climate change. That can only be accomplished by employing all possible technologies and strategies. Truly, its all hands on deck.