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NoOneMan

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6. Do you know how many veggies you need to feed the tractors that exploit the earth's resources
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:32 PM
Nov 2012

You've been given the math multiple times by multiple people regarding yields and required acreage needed to fuel today's production. These machines are burning the earth's legacy; millions of years of the suns solar energy stored beneath ground are being unlocked in a flash in time, and you think we can infinitely power this level of exploitation/production with real-time biological solar yields (without subsidizing crop yields with oil-based fertilizer and depleted potash, all while the earth is experiencing flooding and drought)? The math is fuzzier than Romney's tax cut plan.

While you take a hard look at it, make sure you ask Malaysia just how carbon neutral their biofuels industry is after they experienced 83% deforestation (of a massive carbon sink) for palm oil production.

Pipe dreams is what it all is. The math doesn't work. But growth must continue. Civilization will not let you see this clearly.

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