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I'm an Earth Hog
So I use 6.5 earths. How would I have known? I look at my neighbors and think I am doing more than they are, so there must be alot of earth pigs out here. I just can't figure out how this can be true. Wouldn't earth have expired by now? Somehow, I think that earth protection is not the point. I truly believe the earth will protect itself. It may take 30,000 years as some scientists have explained, but the ecology will evolve. Anyone see the National Geopgraphic Special on when people are gone? The earth is truly resilient. The issue is people protection not earth protection. So if we want to truly protect people, why are we not doing real things about carbon. For example, 95% of the carbon in our atmosphere comes from the "natural" decay of reaped crops. You know, the stalks and etc. that are left over in the fields when farmers take the crops. If we burned the fields, thereby turning the leftovers into charcoal and then turn the charcoal into the earth, we will cut the majority of that 95% contribution. Do some research and you'll find scientists that have proven the math here. Now that is a people protection process I can support. Choosing between eating meat or my furniture just doesn't add up to much in my mind.