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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Well, then read the book and let us know if he's full of crap or your 
opinion of something you haven't read is.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>


> this sounds like total load of crap to me. how's that supposed to work?
> the organisms in living soil exhale CO2 as surely as any other animals.
> the only force that removes it from the air and water is photosynthesis
> (and dry ice manufacturers). so the CO2 could only be removed by "extra"
> plants grown solely for mulch or compost. even then, organic matter
> disappears into the air from soil faster than i can replace it. so
> wouldn't if be more effective just to grow lot of vegetable matter to
> sequester the CO2, then submerge it in a swamp, or otherwise preserve it
> so that it can't decompose and release the CO2 back? in a nutshell, i'm
> really trying hard to see how having lots of decaying organic matter
> lying around will reduce CO2. take a lesson from the "Biosphere".
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