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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> > Yet livestock are a major emitter of greenhouse gases that cause
> > climate change.

Kill all the animals.

> > Altogether, that's more than the
> > emissions caused by transportation.

But just to be safe, kill all the cars and trucks.

> Earth’s early atmosphere is thought to have had methane concentrations
> more than 500 times as great as today.

I am reminded of what Karen said about radiation levels having to be  
within a certain range before humans could exist. It would seem the  
same is true of methane.

> Termites and decaying
> garbage dumps were also recognized as methane sources, again in
> oxygen-free environments.

I didn't know termites could live without oxygen.

>  In fact, it is now estimated that 150 metric tons of methane
> per year, up to 20 percent of the amount that enters the atmosphere,
> comes from plants, not from anaerobic microbes in the soil.

Kill all the plants.

> This new
> discovery will cause people to reconsider planting shrubs, grasses,  
> and
> trees to take up the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, that is the focus
> of those trying to mitigate global warming.

Scientists need to get onto the same page. We have been reading for  
years how the destruction of the Amazon rain forest is contributing  
to global warming. So now we are to believe that fewer plants are  
better?

>  It is little
> recognized that about 25 per cent of atmospheric methane results from
> anaerobic microbes that live in the oxygen-poor soils in rice paddies.

Kill all the rice. This would also help with the human population  
problem.
> The real problem, as I see it, is not meat eaters
> or cows or even the sun, it's people.  There are too many people on  
> the
> planet..unsustainable...of course, we all agree there, I think.

Yep. Kill all the people. Except for us.

>   I personally think that Nature will take care and rectify the  
> situation,
> and I believe in a Power greater than myself.

Me, too. It is called nature. Nature bats last. Humans are only  
temporarily in the lineup.

>   That doesn't absolve me
> from action, just a comfort that there are forces at work that we  
> don't
> understand and probably won't understand, and that my efforts to walk
> lightly won't be in vane.

Seems to me that everyone will do what makes them feel good. Sooner  
or later Gaia with send humans to join the dinosaurs. Might happen  
slow, might happen fast.

Eat, drink, and be merry. If you have anything to say to anyone that  
you feel is important, say it now.