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by novok
1870 days ago
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The CO2 that oil / coal / gas emit is "new" CO2 that the atmosphere never had, while most 'natural' CO2 & methane emissions gets recycled in a 10 year cycle, so it doesn't add to the net CO2 to the atmospheric systems. On the other hand, agriculture emissions coming from animals and plant decomposition is small amount of agriculture's emissions in general anyway, so sequestering carbon is a bad reason to not compost, because of all the fertilizer benefits it creates, which means less need for artificialy created fertilizer. About %50 of fertilizer is the natural poop & compost kind. |
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It's even a bit ironic - there was a time when nature hadn't yet learnt how to break down trees, so a lot of trees accumulated (simplified, I think it is more a then new trick of plant cells that had no "natural enemies"). That organic material is what oil, coal and gas are made from. The irony is that from oil we now make plastic, and nature has not yet found a way to break down plastic. Since microbes can now digest trees, no new oil will be created. But maybe if large enough plastic deposits are accumulated, it could happen again?
(Details may be wrong, as I was too lazy to google, but the gist is, fossil fuels are actually made from organic sources).