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‘Carbon storage’ response

“In response to “Carbon storage offers hope”, first let’s be clear, this is in no way intended as a criticism of those who work the soil for a living. Farmers have known and practiced the methods described since the beginning of recorded history, and continue to innovate. Only now, when it becomes politcized does it become a new original idea, conceived by those who work in an office with no idea whatsoever of how the parts, pieces, and systems of the natural world around them fit together, and function.

Consider too, increased use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fossil fuels, and the relatively short term storage of CO2 in grass type crops. Meanwhile, across the hall from these brainstorming bureaucrats and politicians, others are calculating how many thousand trees must be cut to make room for “clean” wind and solar energy, itself another government subsidized scam.

As to carbon dioxide buildup leading to global warming, the Mt. Pinatubo eruption alone is calculated by scientists to have emitted more CO2 than the entire Industrial Age. Consider this: our earliest ancestors to North America arrived via the Bering Land Bridge, as even then ocean levels were rising, to eventually submerge it, as they have been doing ever since. Was it their bonfires that first caused global warming?

While responsible use of our natural resources is a must, Mother Nature already has the most powerful and effective processing system in place for converting CO2 into oxygen. I’d like to see responsible documentation on the CO2 consumption of the trees in Pennsylvania in an effort to help put to rest once and for all the politically and economically motivated crisis called global warming. Suggestion: leave the farmers to their own good judgement on soil and crop management, allow them to operate profitably, and cease making them dependent on subsidies as has been done with so much of the population.

To rephrase an old but memorable commercial, it’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature.

JAMES KOEGEL

Canisteo, New York

Submitted via email

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