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TexasProgresive

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2. This is not smart

Tue May 6, 2014, 02:40 PM

May 2014

All organic material decays and carbon gases are emitted. This is the cycle of life. Green plants take carbon from the air and through the magic of photosynthesis converts it into food, fiber and whatever. When the plant dies or is consumed the carbon eventually gets back into the air.

Composting is not the cause of climate change, ruminants belching and farting are not the cause. The cause is taking massive amounts of carbon that was sequestered deep underground and burning it in power plants, cars and trucks and airplanes. That carbon long ago was in the atmosphere and somehow ended up buried. We have been putting it back in the atmosphere at an exponential rate from the beginning of the industrial age.

Composting is good.

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The Shocking Carbon Footprint of Compost [View all] HuckleB May 2014 OP

Um, ick. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #1

When there is a balance of carbon to nitrogen of 25-30:1. TexasProgresive May 2014 #3

Thanks for that info Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #6

What you did there is indeed "composting". waddirum May 2014 #22

treated properly, animal waste is safe and beneficial for composting. in fact, entire animal piratefish08 May 2014 #18

This is not smart TexasProgresive May 2014 #2

agreed. Furthermore, the article is about very large scale (factory farm) manure piles magical thyme May 2014 #4

Absolutely right. silverweb May 2014 #5

Exactly. nt laundry_queen May 2014 #7

perspective...we need more of it Supersedeas May 2014 #9

Especially since the point of composting is to grow new (co2 absorbing) plants. n/t lumberjack_jeff May 2014 #12

Thanks for confirming my hunch... sendero May 2014 #20

The only thing animal-connected I put in my compost pile Le Taz Hot May 2014 #8

Yes, I'm mostly talking about commercial-scale composting grapedoc May 2014 #10

Welcome to DU lumberjack_jeff May 2014 #13

It's not industrial exploitation of natural resources on an epic scale, it's compost and cow farts! killbotfactory May 2014 #11

thats why you turn a compost pile. this is nature doing exactly what it is supposed to do. piratefish08 May 2014 #14

it's the uncomposted waste from factory farms that is a REAL issue. piratefish08 May 2014 #15

What some don't seem to understand TexasProgresive May 2014 #16

the state of VT (where I live) is mandating commercial and then household composting over the next piratefish08 May 2014 #17

That is a good thing to do TexasProgresive May 2014 #19

My neighborhood Dorian Gray May 2014 #21

Well I guess we'd better pipi_k May 2014 #23