United Nations Thinks About Adding a Fart Tax to Lower Carbon Emissions

A recent United Nations report now suggests that adding a carbon tax to livestock could help with tackling greenhouse gas emissions that come from animal farms. This new tax idea has been dubbed the Fart Tax. This money would be used to offset the two billion estimated tonnes of carbon dioxide that are produced from these farm animals each year.

The United Nations says that there have been various other suggestions that have been put forward as well. Some of these ideas include applications of new technologies that would improve the efficiency of land use and feed use. In other words, they are trying to get the animals to release less of their so-called carbon emissions.

The report from the United Nations shows that, worldwide, livestock production and management now accounts for more than 20 percent of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. These figures have risen as the human population’s consumption of meat has grown rapidly across the globe in recent years.

According to one company, the Businessgreen, meat consumption in China has increase by nearly 60 kilograms a year. This is more than tree times the amount that was consumed in the early eighties. Overall, the worldwide average level of meat consumption is just over 40 kilograms a year. This is a significant increase of 30 percent when compared to eating habits seen 30 years ago.

So this is just yet another way that governments around the world are trying to save the world from globe warming, right? Well some experts are starting to disagree. These experts go on to say that when governments introduce things like “Fart Taxes” it almost seems as if they are just trying to come up with new ways to tax people. People have to eat, and now the government, in a figure of speaking, is trying to tax this food.