>>11655986 (PB)
Simply put, that's horseshit. This is just "scientific" justification for Agenda 2030. Apparently it's okay if plants decay OUTSIDE the city (as they have since they were single-cell organisms) but not if they enrich the soil INSIDE it.
Plants capture CO2, strip it of its carbon to use within the plant and release (most of) the oxygen back into the surroundings (while adding humidity, too). If the dead material is then turned back into the soil or even simply allowed to decay on the surface, the carbon then becomes part of the soil and is sequestered long-term.
The issue is NOT the planting of vegetation, it's the improper disposal of the dead material in "sanitary" landfills where, due to the LACK of oxygen, it generates methane ("swamp gas"). Ant THAT is an entirely man-made problem caused by HAVING cities. Mankind was not made to live piled one on top of the other, slogging through each others waste, burying it or dumping it into the nearest body of clean water downstream from ones own intake pipes, but upstream of ones neighbors.
Look at China's major cities from space. They do a very bad job of it, but there is a green belt around them because they recycle the human manure by applying it to adjacent farmland, thus completing the nutrient cycle MUCH better than we do.
Get a copy of Joe Jenkins FREE book online. It's called "Humanure". The research has been done and the concepts proven. The cheapest and best fertilizer for your soil is local deciduous leaves composted together with your own bodily wastes. Forget the "yuck" … it's not there. But every bit of food you eat came from the soil somewhere and does not benefit from putting it into the water. The best way to switch from chemical farming to organic farming is by passing the chemical foods through the nearest large mammal. Take a close look in the mirror and ask yourself where you might find such an animal that the local government would allow you to have on your property.
>>11656091 (PB)
90-96% effective at stopping an infection with a 99.98% recovery rate and I should continue acting like my neighbor is my enemy and making strangers of my family?
The guy is an idiot. At minimum wage he'd STILL be overpaid.