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OfflineNephlyte
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Re: Cultivation and Your Carbon Footprints [Re: bhamlaxy]
    #7753967 - 12/13/07 02:25 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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bhamlaxy said:
The "part" we can do is just a drop in the bucket when you compare it to industry and our means of energy production.




This is true, ultimately your life is meaningless when looking at the entirety of humanity. So should you kill yourself? Or kill others? I mean, even if it affects 100 people around you, its only a 100 drops. That is hardly anything in a bucket of 300 million drops.

Really, you can't just shift your tiny burden off onto an energy company. Thats a cop out. You have plenty of choices. In texas, and many other states, you can choose your own energy company. I personally get my power from green mountain energy ( http://www.greenmountainenergy.com/ ). Doesn't matter how much power i use, my carbon contribution is zero from energy. I also avoid eating a lot of meat. I also drive a motorcycle.

Your argument that your contribution is so tiny is actually an argument why you SHOULD do your part. By doing your tiny part, you help the whole world and immediately gain nothing. If you blow off your tiny part, then you hurt the whole world and gain nothing.

I'd rather gain nothing and help the world rather than gain nothing and hurt the world.


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Re: Cultivation and Your Carbon Footprints [Re: tahoe]
    #7754403 - 12/13/07 04:04 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

every last gram of carbon that goes back into the atmosphere as a result of the mushrooms metabolising the grain, or us humans metabolising the mushrooms, was originally pulled out of the atmosphere by the grain to begin with.

and beside that, the carbon emissions would be negligible in the big picture even if mushrooms grew on coal.

:lecture:


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Re: Cultivation and Your Carbon Footprints [Re: bhamlaxy]
    #7755846 - 12/13/07 08:58 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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bhamlaxy said:
The only positive change one individual can make would be to bomb an environmentally unfriendly factory or something.




Are you volunteering? Some midnight ops could really turn this globe of ours around, Fight Club style!


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Re: Cultivation and Your Carbon Footprints [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #7756518 - 12/13/07 11:04 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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RogerRabbit said:
By burying our spent substrates in the ground, they become natural fertilizer for oxygen producing plants. All carbon based materials emit CO2 as they break down. By allowing the mushroom mycelium to do this in a small, enclosed area, we concentrate and contain the CO2, while still breaking down the substrate material for later use in the soil.

You might say the very act of growing mushrooms reduces our carbon footprint.
RR



Indeed. I think Paul Stamets made some similar point in talking about how mushrooms could help us fight global warming.


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