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Capturing Carbon With Garbage Heaps
davide marney writes "In a Washington Post opinion piece, Hugh Price argues that using a decidedly low-tech solution to sequestering excess carbon — making piles of agricultural waste — is better than many 'green' solutions already in practice. Sometimes the easy answer is the right answer. After all, it's how coal forms, and we know that works pretty well."
The flaw is that it still does not address the root issue:
Overpopulation.
So contibute to the fix: kill yourself.
You can smugly pat yourself on the back when you're done.
Yep, if there is indeed "anthropogenic global warming" (or, *cough cough* 'climate change'), then the root problem lies with the 'anthropogenic' part, right? Just too many damned people. Fix that shit first, and the problem will solve itself... No need for non-solutiuon, stop-gap measures like 'sequestration' or 'carbon credits' or more new taxes by which to further hold down individuals under the thumb of Big Gov't...
But that doesn't serve the purposes of those who know better than we do what is good for us... {roll_eyes}
Pot. Kettle.
How about I just continue with the plan I came up with over 25 years ago, when even as a child I saw where we were heading, and not reproduce.
Yes, I walk my talk. I haven't, and won't, make additional consumers of Earth's resources. I drive an older, small, efficient car, and keep it up so that it remains that way. I live in a boat made the same year as I was born, 'recycling' it, and do so without air conditioning or television. I use a composting toilet that I made. Etc, etc... Compared to most people, especially the ones who preach at us about 'climate change' and 'carbon credits' and who want to tax me even more, my 'carbon footprint' is non-existant. This 'pot' wishes more 'kettles' were black.
Tell us about yourself there, anon? Do you live what you believe, or do you choose the modern day equivalent of paid absolution?
"...there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight. Awkwardness and stupidity can." ~ Mark Twain
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Yes, I walk my talk.
No, you DON'T.
Simply by continuing to exist you contribute to your overpopulation claim.
But then you excuse YOURSELF with a bunch of self-congratulatory claptrap.
You're so SPECIAL that YOU get to continue to exist. EVERYONE ELSE is the problem.
You're one smug, arrogant, self-important, "special" idiot with delusions of intelligence.
So glad someone finally mentioned this. Micro-ecology is much more complex and "smarter" than this article is giving it credit for. An extremely large amount of bacteria and fungi can survive in anaerobic environments. There are millions of species of bacteria, alone - if a free pile of carbon source is just sitting in the dirt, there is guaranteed to be many species that will find an electron acceptor to work with. And seriously, basing the entire reasoning on the composting example is ridiculous. Just because your compost needs to be tilled doesn't mean it isn't decomposing - it is just decomposing slightly slower than it does if you do till it. Also, what time scale do most people compost on a month and a half at most? "Oh, after a month of not tilling my compost, its not completely decomposed, that MUST mean it will never decompose...."
For this idea to work, artificial peat bogs would be the answer because they truly do decompose organic material extremely slow due to their acidic conditions. The problem with this is of course though, is the acidic conditions. We have enough problems with acidification of our groundwater,surface water and fertile land.
Personally I LOVE it when rabid greenies state so proudly their intention to not reproduce. Why? Because the NON rabid greenies, AKA, the people with good sense, will MASSIVELY out-breed the greenies resulting in their eventual extinction. So yeah, you greenies go ahead and NOT breed. Way to go!
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory