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  • Yes, I would surely imagine this is the case, and that if I were to talk to farmers I would have a greater understanding of the subject. In essence, this is my point—that there should be more discussion about this to more inform the general public. My lack of understanding of the topic is representative of the broader tends among the average person. Furthermore, I would imagine them to be even less informed than my already uninformed state due to their lack of interest in the subject.





  • While switching to plant based food is an obvious course of action which would have drastic benefits, several other methods exist by which agricultural emissions. These include:

    • Livestock diet changes to reduce methane production
    • More accurate fertilizer application to reduce nitrous oxide production
    • Draining rice paddies to reduce production of methane by anaerobic microbes
    • No till farming to allow more carbon to be stored in the soil
    • Farm equipment electrification
    • Crops bred for higher yield or lower resource usage







  • The “right” solution doesn’t work. Each light switch can turn the lightbulb on by being up or being down. This means there is 3*2=6 possible cases of which light switch state turns on the light bulb. So we need to make 3 observations to bring it down to one case. An example of the original logic failing is that the light bulb being on could mean either that switch 2 being up turns it on, switch 1 being down turns it on, or switch 3 being down turn it on.

    I present an alternative solution. Since the conventional solution says that we can feel its temperature, we know the light bulb is within reach. We can visit the room first, unplug the light bulb, and bring it back to the light switches. Then we can check all 2^3 permutations of light switches to see which one effects the bulb. Of course, it is likely that non affects it after unplugging it, but it could be a wireless light bulb.