Start scrubbing tomorrow. WE HAVE EVERYTHING NECESSARY FOR PLANTING THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF HEMP!
It takes no energy to grow hemp. It can even be seeded by hand. It requires no fertilizers, no pesticides, very little water, very poor soil. Take the worst bare land and plant Hemp.
The hemp manufacturing technology and markets are available all over the world. The US is one of the few countries that does not grow hemp as part of its economy, because of the fossil fuel industry!
Scientists and industry insiders are increasingly optimistic about hemp’s potential as a tool in the fight against climate change. They say it’s the world’s most versatile natural product and that it can supercharge efforts to avoid environmental catastrophe.
The problem is that you cannot legislate climate… Paying taxes on carbon emissions does not halt the carbon emission, it just makes it less profitable.
I think it was in this thread somewhere about a “Biofuels” credit for energy production.
Wood pellets are considered a Biofuel, because originally they were made from waste product.
But now, forests in the US are being cleared to make wood pellets for “Biofuel” in Europe. And the companies using the pellets are meeting their goals on paper while forests are destroyed in the US.
That is one of the aspects behind the lumber products shortage we have seen.
Not that I am advocating for this, but hemp makes incredibly good pellets
Of course, the problem with burning carbon rich fuel is exactly the same for hemp as for wood.
Burning any of these type pellets releases enormous quantities of carbon into the atmosphere.
What we want is to conserve the carbon sequestration by Tree forests and Industrial Hemp forests. Grow the hemp for cash crop, and trees for aesthetic beauty, wildlife preservation, and local special purposes.
And I wonder how much pollution is produced in manufacturing and transporting those pellets.
But as long as those energy companies can claim a “Biofuels” credit, it’s not on them…
I was one of the 12,000 people registered to enter the site of the Vogtle Nuclear Plant during construction of units 1 and 2. The energy consumed by all those people going to and from the site and the manufacture, transportation and installation of all the materials required to build the plant was more (so I have heard) than will ever be produced by the plant.
All human activity is always a net loss game. Basic thermodynamics tells us that activity never breaks even. You just can’t get more out of a system than you put in to it. Perpetual motion doesn’t happen.
The only way to control climate change without a degradation of lifestyle is to control population. The world’s population has tripled in my lifetime. Unless we do something it will triple again in the lifetime of some reading this.
We cannot triple food production, clean water availability, energy production, cities, airports, roads and railroads, and everything else we need and want without losing something else. The planet is a finite resource. They’re not making more land and we’re already short on fresh water.
If the rest of you don’t control population climate won’t be an issue; civilization as you know it won’t survive. I will be dead in a few years so it won’t impact me that much, but I feel really sorry for your grandchildren and their grandchildren. I chose not to have kids, and I’m glad; I’m not responsible for the population problem.