Revised January 25, 2008

I believe one of the reasons American education is being dumbed-down (by the teachers' unions and college professors) is so that the socialist (left wing) agenda can be slipped in under-the-door.

Their current demon is "global warming" said to be caused by CARBON DIOXIDE.  An evil-sounding chemical, huh?

I learned in, like, the 6th grade (1957), that carbon dioxide is PLANT FOOD.  It's what plants "inhale" so they can "exhale" OXYGEN . . . which is what we INHALE to stay alive.  An increase in CO₂ will result in an increase in plant growth.  (They've got more to "eat.")  This will result in more oxygen for us, our pets and other animals.  The world tends to self-balance.

But Americans today, apparently, aren't being taught that CO₂ is "plant food."  Only that it's an evil chemical AND that you'd better give up your car and stop using electricity because CO₂ is going to destroy the world.  And if you want to pretend there's a dark side to the leftist/socialist agenda, YOU exhale carbon dioxide . . . so, WHY should YOU be allowed to live?  Hmmm?

(Keep in mind that every time socialists/communists have gained power in a country, it's resulted in hundreds-of-thousands--or millions--of people being slaughtered . . . oh, wait, you weren't taught that, were you?)

Well, my rant aside (my views on politics--and religion--lose us thousands of dollars of business a month . . . people have told us. That's OK. I prefer to have thinkers as customers!), the following is from Robert Plamondon's poultry newsletter of February 10, 2007.  It illustrates how simple it is to solve the "problem" of carbon dioxide emissions.  (For readers who've been recently "educated" in public school, CO₂ is the chemical abbreviation for carbon dioxide.)
 

What's Your Share of Global Warming?

In an impressive show of unanimity, the world's politicians and their tame scientists got together and demanded more money ... I mean, they said that global warming was real and bad.

The world political community hasn't been this unanimous about anything since the Seventies, when they agreed that world communism was inevitable [and that the world was cooling, bh], or the Thirties, when the world fell in love with Fascism. So I have trouble taking them seriously. Still, I wondered, "Just for laughs, suppose they're right. What will CO₂ abatement amount to?"

The simplest proposal I've heard is a call to reduce worldwide CO₂ emissions from today's levels by a billion metric tons per year. There are about 6.7 billion people in the world. That means that your share is 147 kg (323 lb.) of CO₂ per year, either in reduced emissions or increased capture.

The CO₂ emissions from gasoline are about 19.5 pounds per gallon, so you can do your part by reducing your annual fuel consumption by 17 gallons. For diesel, it would take only 14 gallons.

You can also capture CO₂. One way to do this is with plants (taken from http://www.rff.org/Documents/RFF-DP-05-04.pdf):

Type	Avg. Tons CO2
Cropland	88
Pasture	125
Forest, 30-yr. cycle	253
Forest, Mature	513

So if I convert some pasture I'm not using to forest with a 30-year harvest cycle, the increase in carbon content on my land will remove 253-125=128 tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere, per acre. Over 30 years, this averages 4.3 tons of additional CO₂ capture per acre per year. This means that creating a single acre of forest will exceed my share of the CO₂ abatement problem by 24 times!

Or, to put it another way, 1/24 acre of forest -- a 42x42 foot square -- would take care of my share.

Another interesting piece of information in the document already cited was that pastureland has a 2:1 range in carbon content. This presumably means that, by using pastured poultry or other means of heavy manuring of the land, you can increase its carbon storage, perhaps amounting to an extra 50 tons of CO₂ per acre. Since your share of CO₂ abatement is only 323 pounds per year, doing this to one acre would represent your share for the next 283 years!

Or, to put it another way, if you do this to 1/283 of an acre (a plot a little over 12 ft. square), you've taken care of your share for this year.

This doesn't sound so hard. It makes me wonder ... is it possible that the people who want us to buy their hybrid cars and vote in their semi-totalitarian measures don't have our best interests at heart?

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