Originally Posted by
awright
Ah-Ha! Now I get the trick. Of course, any increasing sequestration of carbon in human bodies requires continually increasing human biomass which we are seeing has its own, much more severe impacts on the planet.
I hope you are not suggestion that we can destroy the rainforests with negligible impact on human welfare on the planet.
By the way, how do you arrive at the conclusion that growing food replenishes oxygen more than the rainforests? Has somebody analyzed the relative magnitudes of the CO2/O2 cycle in agriculture vs. nature?
Thanks for the interesting descussion. My comments were not intended as an attack.
awright