My OperaThe Paper Trail.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 11:07:40 PM
Unlike Oil and metal, wood, or rather trees, are a natural living thing. So you can't talk about deforestation in the same way as you talk about peek oil (if there is such a thing).
Like all living things, trees reproduce. It happens. It's nature. Like how they show monkeys humping on Animal Planet. All living things ever do is reproduce. No matter which of the three lifeforms one talks about (plant, animal or bacteria). All we ever do is reproduce to gain dominance for the future and then die. Humans are probably the one exception to this law of living.
We try to make something of this thing we call life. And for the most parts we have. We're totally different from the rest of the animal kingdom. But we still hold the same basic laws and rules. And when we look at life, wild life, we only see the differences, and overlook the similarities. There are two theories why this is:
The first being that we are so much more advanced and superior than other animals that we cannot possibly have anything in common with them.
The second being that we've advanced so much that we've gone beyond nature and are doing everything we do naturally in the wrong way. And feel that animals can't do what we do.
Both of these theories are wrong.
The differences we see in the plant world go far beyond this. We see plant life as a thing, an object, something that'll disappear if we use it too much like oil or gold. We don't see any of the similarities we as humans hold with plants.
All lifeforms on Earth do the same five basic things. We eat, drink, breathe, reproduce, and die.
Humans and domesticated animals do have one slight exception to this. Some humans and domesticated animals don't reproduce because of personal choices (or choices of their owners in the case of domesticated animals).
Plant life, wild plant life, don't have a choice when it comes reproduction. They just do it. Domestically, if you plant two plants of the same species next to each other they will reproduce. That's how 'sexed up' plants are.
Another thing plants tend to do is that they can grow from a cutting. If you cut a branch off your plant at an angle, cultivate it (leave it on a damp cloth until a shoot sprouts), then plant that, it will be able to grow into a full sized plant like the one it was cut from. It's called 'topping', I believe. With this, you can grow many plants from just one seed. In fact most people who grow marijuana do this to increase profit from one seed.
Plants can't help but grow. There for, they can't die out. And thus, deforestation is not a problem.
The matter of Carbon Dioxide.
As carbon dioxide is a natural gas, exhaled by all animals, humans included, there is no chance of it running out any time soon. Plants breathe carbon dioxide in much the same way animals breathe oxygen. There is far less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than oxygen, but plants will make do with that 0.038% and turn it into more oxygen. But as long as animals are breathing, there's no chance of plants not growing.
Recycling is pointless. The plants aren't going to die out on a mass scale any time soon. Paper is so biodegradable that within a few years it can be turned to mush. And that process speeds up if you reduce the size of the paper (by shredding it). The carbon dioxide emitted from it is no more than it would be if the plant had died and decomposed naturally and far less than recycling it.
The only thing recycling is good for is making money. But not you. What you give to be recycled is sold on to be processed, once processed it's sold on again as new paper, which is then sold back to you in form of a book, toilet paper, printer paper, packaging, all ready for you to give away once again for it to be sold back to you. It's literally a licence to print money. Or as the Narrator in Fight Club said, 'it was beautiful, we were selling rich women their fat asses back to them'. He said it about soap made from fat stolen from a liposuction clinic, but the theory is the same, if not more repetitive with recycling. You see, in Fight Club the process ended with the soap being bought. With recycling the process carries on until the consumer (you) realises that you're being conned.
What I have written I've written with a basic education in science and something that's taught to all children between the ages of 11 and 16 in the UK (well apart from the bits about marijuana, Fight Club and recycling which I have learnt from growing marijuana myself, watching the mainstream media and picking up on bits people tend to skip and a little common sense). I don't claim to have a PhD. I don't even have anything on paper. What I do have is basic knowledge – something everyone should have – and common sense – something no one seems to use any more.
Like all living things, trees reproduce. It happens. It's nature. Like how they show monkeys humping on Animal Planet. All living things ever do is reproduce. No matter which of the three lifeforms one talks about (plant, animal or bacteria). All we ever do is reproduce to gain dominance for the future and then die. Humans are probably the one exception to this law of living.
We try to make something of this thing we call life. And for the most parts we have. We're totally different from the rest of the animal kingdom. But we still hold the same basic laws and rules. And when we look at life, wild life, we only see the differences, and overlook the similarities. There are two theories why this is:
The first being that we are so much more advanced and superior than other animals that we cannot possibly have anything in common with them.
The second being that we've advanced so much that we've gone beyond nature and are doing everything we do naturally in the wrong way. And feel that animals can't do what we do.
Both of these theories are wrong.
The differences we see in the plant world go far beyond this. We see plant life as a thing, an object, something that'll disappear if we use it too much like oil or gold. We don't see any of the similarities we as humans hold with plants.
All lifeforms on Earth do the same five basic things. We eat, drink, breathe, reproduce, and die.
Humans and domesticated animals do have one slight exception to this. Some humans and domesticated animals don't reproduce because of personal choices (or choices of their owners in the case of domesticated animals).
Plant life, wild plant life, don't have a choice when it comes reproduction. They just do it. Domestically, if you plant two plants of the same species next to each other they will reproduce. That's how 'sexed up' plants are.
Another thing plants tend to do is that they can grow from a cutting. If you cut a branch off your plant at an angle, cultivate it (leave it on a damp cloth until a shoot sprouts), then plant that, it will be able to grow into a full sized plant like the one it was cut from. It's called 'topping', I believe. With this, you can grow many plants from just one seed. In fact most people who grow marijuana do this to increase profit from one seed.
Plants can't help but grow. There for, they can't die out. And thus, deforestation is not a problem.
The matter of Carbon Dioxide.
As carbon dioxide is a natural gas, exhaled by all animals, humans included, there is no chance of it running out any time soon. Plants breathe carbon dioxide in much the same way animals breathe oxygen. There is far less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than oxygen, but plants will make do with that 0.038% and turn it into more oxygen. But as long as animals are breathing, there's no chance of plants not growing.
Recycling is pointless. The plants aren't going to die out on a mass scale any time soon. Paper is so biodegradable that within a few years it can be turned to mush. And that process speeds up if you reduce the size of the paper (by shredding it). The carbon dioxide emitted from it is no more than it would be if the plant had died and decomposed naturally and far less than recycling it.
The only thing recycling is good for is making money. But not you. What you give to be recycled is sold on to be processed, once processed it's sold on again as new paper, which is then sold back to you in form of a book, toilet paper, printer paper, packaging, all ready for you to give away once again for it to be sold back to you. It's literally a licence to print money. Or as the Narrator in Fight Club said, 'it was beautiful, we were selling rich women their fat asses back to them'. He said it about soap made from fat stolen from a liposuction clinic, but the theory is the same, if not more repetitive with recycling. You see, in Fight Club the process ended with the soap being bought. With recycling the process carries on until the consumer (you) realises that you're being conned.
What I have written I've written with a basic education in science and something that's taught to all children between the ages of 11 and 16 in the UK (well apart from the bits about marijuana, Fight Club and recycling which I have learnt from growing marijuana myself, watching the mainstream media and picking up on bits people tend to skip and a little common sense). I don't claim to have a PhD. I don't even have anything on paper. What I do have is basic knowledge – something everyone should have – and common sense – something no one seems to use any more.
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