The solutions to Global Warming include. . .

[Boerseun]

Originally Posted by Turtle

I call for a boycott, then ban, on fast food restaurant kid's toys. Talk about a waste of resources!

110% with you one that one!

...and then, while we're at it, we can ban "Supersizing", in all its forms!

Not only is it unhealthy, but I think over here the Competition Commission will declare it uncompetitive behaviour, forcing the smaller operators out of the market, and the rest to follow suit in offering ridiculously big helpings for a pittance - with the end effect that only the biggest franchises will survive the "supersize" wars.

If there's 100ha tillable soil available in the world, and 50% goes to feeding humans with their required nourishment, how much of the remaining 50% goes into overstuffing humans via "supersize" schemes? It's a total waste, because people really don't need 2kg's deep fried chips when 250g will do.

Agriculture is only of the biggest polluters, what with all the chemicals being pumped into the soils. So, obese people (and they are gaining in numbers, every day) who are creating an artificial demand for agricultural products, are contributing in a big way to global warming.

Maybe we should increase taxes for fat asses?

For a given height, you've got an ideal weight. You should supply the taxman with your length and weight, and if you're more than 10% over your ideal, you'll start paying penalties. Think about it!

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Turtle

I'm old enough, as I believe you should be Micha, to react to few urgencies but my own to find a WC. I'm greener than Kermit, but not because of climate change.

Got me in one do you have a secret camera on my computer?

LOL

I think, as a very low status person, I am sick of batting my head against a brick wall of ignorance and insouciance.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

Got me in one do you have a secret camera on my computer?

LOL

I think, as a very low status person, I am sick of batting my head against a brick wall of ignorance and insouciance.

No camera; just been paying attention the last few years.

Low status? Like a helpless little mouse? If Æsop is any judge, no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. I grant ignorance appears baked-brickish, but by the same token then insouciance is only mud-brickish. Go Zen on the wall and go around it. Follow the Yellow Brick Tao.

[Michaelangelica]

Nice thoghts thaks, I'm alittle down today

Perhaps we could stop this before tourism?

n a recent press release, a Hawaiian peace group, Malu Aina ("Land of Peace")
Malu Aina - organic farming, peace and justice community issued a public statement on the bombings of a military training area on the Big Island of Hawaii. The monthly exercises involve United States Air Force B-2 stealth aircraft dropping bombs on the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA).

The B-2 "Spirit" bombers are equipped with "low-observable stealth technology" deployed to Hawaii from as far away as Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. These military exercises called "Koa Lighting," occasionally conducted in conjunction with the US Navy and Marines, often exceed 18 hours of continuous flight for the 6,880-nautical mile training missions.

Boeing (The Boeing Company), the company that built the weapons delivery system for the stealth bombers, explains on its website that B-2s possess nuclear weapons firing capability and have been used in nonstop missions to Afghanistan from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.

According to a recent Associated Press article, B-2 Stealth Bombers Hit US Targets (1), the aircraft fly 18,000 feet above the mountains over the main island of Hawaii. In September, the B-2s began monthly 2,000-pound bomb-dropping exercises on the Pohakuloa military range.

Bomb Drops on Big Island a Public Health Concern for Hawaiians.

. . .
The admission of Depleted Uranium (DU) in weapons training on the Hawaiian Islands came after years of the military denying its use and presence on the islands.

[Turtle]

So I was watching evening news and they gave a report on the meth-freak-metal-thieves now stealing the plaques off graves. Anyway, it prompted this fun & practical idea for solving global warming by sequestering carbon.... You're gonna love this.

We start pyrolizing the dead! That's right; turn the bodies into charcoal, then bury with no box, and plant switchgrass on top. Resources saved on the box, carbon sequestered, renewable fuel terra preta'ed, karma satisfied.

Better yet, if the body form stays together, we can have ourselves put in poses before carbonization, and mounted or otherwise utilized afterward. Well cared for, a body should last thousands of years.

We don't stop with just the recent dead either; we start digging up all bodies & carbonizing them, redeeming their sins of having dared to live in the first place by keeping them from sneaking back into the cycle. Honor thy father & they mother; have them carbonized today.

[freeztar]

Originally Posted by Turtle

So I was watching evening news and they gave a report on the meth-freak-metal-thieves now stealing the plaques off graves. Anyway, it prompted this fun & practical idea for solving global warming by sequestering carbon.... You're gonna love this.

We start pyrolizing the dead! That's right; turn the bodies into charcoal, then bury with no box, and plant switchgrass on top. Resources saved on the box, carbon sequestered, renewable fuel terra preta'ed, karma satisfied.

Better yet, if the body form stays together, we can have ourselves put in poses before carbonization, and mounted or otherwise utilized afterward. Well cared for, a body should last thousands of years.

We don't stop with just the recent dead either; we start digging up all bodies & carbonizing them, redeeming their sins of having dared to live in the first place by keeping them from sneaking back into the cycle. Honor thy father & they mother; have them carbonized today.

I've got a big smile on my face right now...love the switchgrass reference.

I'm all for it! Well...except for the post-humous factor.

It boggles my mind that I can't be buried in the soil with just my flesh (what's left of it) and bones. But what better way than to stick me on the barbi!

It's really brilliant in a certain sense. Why cremate, when you can become fuel for the pyrolosis?
Instead of spreading ashes in the sea, we could spread char in the soil.
You are what you eat you know.

[questor]

What would happen if we reduced world population by 20%?
What will happen if the world population increases by 50%?
What is the single most important way we could attack the squandering of earth's resources?

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by questor

What would happen if we reduced world population by 20%?

I sense that there'd be a war crimes tribunal involved.

Originally Posted by questor

What will happen if the world population increases by 50%?

All we need to do is wait about 30 or 40 years to find out.

World population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by questor

What is the single most important way we could attack the squandering of earth's resources?

Efficiency and Design en masse.

[erich]

Wonderful Turtle; The fullest vision of cradle to cradle thinking. No carbon mummies for mourners though, dust to dust, or should I say, char to earth, just give them the water along with the human bio-oil and carbon credits.

Let's see; At a world saving price of $200/Ton C (including GHG equivalent benefits) that's what maybe 60 cents off my funeral cost

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by erich

Wonderful Turtle; The fullest vision of cradle to cradle thinking. No carbon mummies for mourners though, dust to dust, or should I say, char to earth, just give them the water along with the human bio-oil and carbon credits.

Let's see; At a world saving price of $200/Ton C (including GHG equivalent benefits) that's what maybe 60 cents off my funeral cost

Darn! I missed the gas & water collection part! I think the best method for a body is probably that exothermic hydrothermal method of carbonization we discussed over here: >> Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC)

It sounds like it would preserve the body form, as I recall reading in there that pine-cones carbonized by this method emerged structurally intact. We can kill 2 birds with one stone and get practicality, decoration, and charcoal sequestration in the soil, if we use the charcoaled limbs as row-marker stakes. How humerus is that?

Let's not stop here, lets cook up the dead pets too, and those cows that Boerseun keeps seeing.