[OT] Re: Let's make a difference

[David B]

Ok, couple funny things.  They recommend building a tar pit in your back 
yard. That happens to be funny.  Another recommendation was to chop down 
most of our forests and bury them deep inside cement bunkers.   It's 
funny because of how ridiculous it sounds, and its funny because it 
might be a better way to solve the greenhouse effect then recycling.    
Remember taking large amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere does much 
more then just recycling or slowing down the introduction of carbon.  
One more funny thing is that the greenhouse effect isnt really for sure 
so to go to the extreme like "tar pits" makes me laugh


Michael L Torrie wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 12:17 -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote:
>   
>> As for recycling being a bad thing, that's junk science.  Although we
>> have really be careful with energy and pollution economics here.
>>     
>
> Just to clarify.  If recycling material causes a net increase in carbon
> emissions (burning of diesel fuel, electricity generation), then that
> can actually be more detrimental to the environment that manufacturing
> new material.  This ignores the environmental impact of landfills, toxic
> runoff, etc, which are as serious as the rest of it all.  So we'll
> always be making trade-offs.  More carbon emissions for cleaner ground
> water, etc.
>
>
>   
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>     
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