[dahart]

“Agricultural emissions” are coming from and regulated based on the machines involved, and animals, not really plants. We don’t require fossil fuels to feed humans, obviously, since humans didn’t use fossil fuels before a hundred or so years ago. We now have a system that happens to use unnecessary amounts of fossil fuels, and as always companies will externalize their impacts and and cut corners whenever possible. If we want to survive, it is looking more and more certain that we need to reduce fossil fuel based machine CO2 emissions.

BTW the cows vs bugs thing is because raising the scale of cattle we have is also completely unnecessary, and cows emit methane, which is way worse than CO2 and why cattle does count as ag emissions and is a concern.

Armchair climate science aside, it doesn’t actually matter where emissions are coming from, what matters is whether we can reduce them. We can’t really choose to stop breathing, and even if we did it cannot solve the problem we’ve created at all - human CO2 emissions is too small of a portion of total emissions. We can, however, choose to reduce fossil fuel and red meat consumption, and those things can make a real difference.