As reading in Carbon Democracy from Timothy Mitchell: “The organic matter equivalent to all of the plant and animal life produced over the entire earth for fou

As reading in Carbon Democracy from Timothy Mitchell: “The organic matter equivalent to all of the plant and animal life produced over the entire earth for four hundred years was required to produce the fossil fuels we burn today in a single year” Saying it otherwise: the natural ecosystems need 400 years to offset one year of fossil fuel emissions. When the ecosystems are still there and healthy...