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Old 01-23-2014, 11:49 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
If the carbon dioxide comes from plants, which pulled it out of the air as they grew, then it won't change the long term balance - and so it is not a pollutant. But if carbon dioxide comes from fossil fuels, which otherwise would have remained buried underground - then it is a pollutant.
Yes, looking at the long term cycle the total CO2 levels should even out.
But it does seem a shame when the plants went to all the effort of removing the CO2 from the air (both fossil and sustainably derived) that we would then throw it back into the atmosphere.

"Move over forests, we need room for our sugar crops"
"But we just squeezed over for your food crops!"
"Yeah, that was yesterday, today we need sugar and lots of it, so move over or move out"
"You will miss us when we are gone."
"Nah, we will just drive somewhere nicer in our sugarmobiles"
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