Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 days agoFair, but corn has a use. (Also not one I agree with but you get my meaning.)
Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 days agoFair, but corn has a use. (Also not one I agree with but you get my meaning.)
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Only 1% of the corn grown in the US is eaten by people. Most of it is used as animal feed (which is catastrophic on their systems as their stomachs aren’t designed to digest corn, so their corn diet slowly kills them) and rest is made into ethanol and added to gasoline. The corn subsidies are so dumb that they require a minimum amount of the corn being grown to be turned into ethanol, which is extremely inefficient.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, exactly.