To: Mrs. Don-o
Compost piles have literally a zero carbon footprint.
The carbon they release was removed from the atmosphere when the now-composting plants were growing.
If you want to increase your carbon footprint you need to go drive your Suburban around the block a few times.
18 posted on
06/22/2014 7:30:09 AM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
Well true, you've got it 100% true; and yet a compost pile does have a positive carbon impact, because if we threw our garbage in the city trash, it would end up in Iris Glen (landfill) under anaerobic conditions, and turn to methane, sequestered there God knows how many years or centuries.
I am preventing the carbon from being sequestered underground. (Interesting Link).
And by the way, the same thing is true of the gas that runs your Subaru. That's just the carbon that was in the gorgeously greenhousy atmosphere and used by the plants during the Carbonaceous Age. You're un-sequestering it and setting it free again.
30 posted on
06/22/2014 8:08:11 AM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(When I grow up, I'm gonna settle down, chew honeycomb & drive a tractor, grow things in the ground.)
To: DuncanWaring
That's just what I am doing! Driving my Tahoe around the block again and again for absolutely no reason. We don't travel much anymore, don't have a boat anymore, rarely fly anywhere so if I am going to contribute to glowbull warming, I must do what I must for the cause.
We do raise cattle so cow flatulence helps I guess.
32 posted on
06/22/2014 8:26:16 AM PDT by
Ditter
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