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>means you can actually live at entirely carbon zero That's not enough. You need to also do something to offset the carbon dioxide that went into manufacturing
by hueving 10y ago
>means you can actually live at entirely carbon zero
That's not enough. You need to also do something to offset the carbon dioxide that went into manufacturing everything and the transportation for it. Make sure you plant a few hundred trees if you want to be at carbon zero. You also need to plant trees to replace the wood you burn. And you need to offset the CO2 from process of making any food you bring in as well. Otherwise it's an unjustified feel-good exercise to claim you are living at carbon zero.
- abraae 10y agoYes, we have a few hundred trees. Good point about the food though.
- unethical_ban 10y agoActually, one needs to kill oneself (not with fire). Living takes up carbon. Come on. Acting as if any "carbon positive" living is immoral, is insanity.
- duaneb 10y agoWhy would planting trees not work?
- amorphid 10y agoTrees die. Decomposing, or burning, gives off all the carbon they soaked up.
- reitanqild 10y agoThis can however take a decades or a few hundres years if not more. Around here they have found logs thousand of years old in the swamps.
- digler999 10y ago> in the swamps probably because theres not much O2 in the water compared to the atmosphere.
- jcoffland 10y agoThis is not true. Much carbon is left behind after burning or decomposition.
- ptaipale 10y agoCut the trees down, make paper out of it, print government regulations and statistics and reports on it, store these in a vault permanently. You have a carbon sink.
- htns 10y agoIt takes decades for those trees to grow to firewood size. In the meantime there will be carbon "in flight". Since the trees will be cut down and burned again, effectively replanting only reduces emissions by some fraction, dependent on the growth time. Burning wood, especially at your cabin, has a high emission rate, so an electric stove might be better, and fairly certainly is if powered by a solar panel.
- duaneb 10y agoSure. But for some number of trees planted, you WILL eventually displace the carbon.
- gregw134 10y ago>kill oneself (not with fire) lol...that's the funniest thing I've read all month.
- jcoffland 10y agoHe said the claim of living carbon neutral was incorrect not immoral.
- st3v3r 10y agoNo, they were letting perfect be the enemy of good.
- hueving 10y agoCalling out blatantly incorrect statements is not letting perfect be the enemy of the good. Electricity side effects is such a small percentage of the CO2 from a single person that neutralizing it and claiming carbon zero is ridiculous.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoIt's a bit more complicated than that. The original source for the carbon that humans emit is the atmosphere itself, so overall humans are carbon neutral. And since a human body itself contains carbon, until it has completely decomposed the body itself is carbon negative.
- digler999 10y ago> to replace the wood you burn trees have a lifecycle, and for the time the tree was a live, it was sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. firewood needn't come from a living tree. and cutting some down can leave room and nutrients for others to grow.