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He's the rare right wing, climate change accepting.
He’s views on it are softening.
In 2018 he though it was the biggest threat, now he thinks population decline is. He’s also retweeted false claims such as farming has no effect, etc.
Honestly I think Elons climate concerns ends where his commercial ventures do. For him going green means batteries, cars, and clean energy to power those, not reducing consumerism/triples R’s or other sustainability.
I can't see inside his brain but I think he's referring to biological things. The problem is people are looking up farming which includes all the CO2 from gas, diesel, and probably even ng from fertilizer production. They aren't the same things.
As for his other things like being against public transit his privilege shows through.
Which would still be wrong.
Methane as a byproduct of ruminates makes up roughly half of the 20% of CO2e emissions created by the agricultural industry.
"Yeah, climate change is real, but I'll be real dead by the time it affects human survival, so IDGAF."