Posted on 11/24/2022 5:45:52 PM PST by algore
Cannabis plants could be the missing player in human's fight against climate change, as hemp can absorb carbon dioxide from the air more than twice as effectively as trees.
Numerous studies have shown that hemp captures up to 16 tons of greenhouse gas annually, while trees suck up about six tons.
The carbon dioxide also becomes permanently encased within hemp fibers that are used in a range of products - from textiles to medicines and car parts.
Hudson Carbon, a New York research center that studies carbon storage, found that one acre of cannabis plants can store up to three tons of carbon, removing more than seven tons from the atmosphere. While the US only accounts for five percent of the global population, the nation is responsible for 28 percent of the world's carbon emissions.
Ben Dobson, founder and president of Hudson Carbon in Hudson, told Lancaster Farming: 'Roughly speaking, if [the US] did 50 million acres of hemp, we would be sequestering a couple hundred million tons of carbon per year on that acreage.'
Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant but contains deficient levels of the psychoactive compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) compared to marijuana, which is another variety.
The plant is considered 'nature's purifying,' pulling toxins from the air and permanently trapping them within its fibers, Pebble Mag reports.
And it also absorbs carbon from the air as it grows, making it a carbon-negative crop.
Other crops, such as cotton, need at least 1,500 gallons of water for every pound produced.
At the same time, hemp requires less than half yet creates more than 200 percent more fibers on the same land, according to Rebekah Shaman, Managing Director at the British Hemp Alliance
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Insanity.
And pot smokers hold their breaths, to capture that evil carbon.
Our Founding Father’s grew hemp trees. Faster growing than pine and with the added benefit of hemp seed oil.
Other crops, such as cotton, need at least 1,500 gallons of water for every pound produced.
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Does this include bathroom breaks for the ‘cotton pickers’.
They inhale.
But even better, food crops sequester CO2 by converting it to sugars ... just goes to show you Cannibis impairs ones ability to reason and think critically...
Our Founding Father’s grew hemp trees.
trees?
Money grows on trees, hemp does not.
We don’t need Cannabis plants to absorb CO2, the oceans have been doing it just fine for billions of years.
True. But they used it to make hemp ropes.
I stand corrected.
Hemp, much like bamboo, is classified a plant. The fastest growing one on earth.
Brawndo Has What Plants Crave!
All hemp in the world? A single plant? An acre of hemp?
Hudson Carbon, a New York research center that studies carbon storage, found that one acre of cannabis plants can store up to three tons of carbon, removing more than seven tons from the atmosphere.
Is it three or seven? Or is the author jumping back and forth between carbon and carbon dioxide without bothering to tell the reader?
Hemp ropes could be useful. Especially in and around the DC area.
Well of course. Leftists believe dope is the answer to everything.
You’ll get no arguments from me regarding that.
I suggest leftists who believe CO2 is evil should do their part and STOP EXHALING THEIR OWN CO2.
As a bonus, that would solve many, many issues.
Just watched Idiocracy again today with visiting relatives.
It gets funnier every time I watch it.
That’s a bingo. Algee absorbs most of these gases, not plants but don’t tell the stupid useful idiots who have climate change as their religion that information.
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