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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by Theodores on Sunday June 23, 2019 @05:08PM (#20258677)
I wish I could mod your comment up 1000 times.

That small detail about the Carboniferous Period is something nobody has told me before, which makes me wonder how many people in this debate know their subject.

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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by nkurz on Monday June 24, 2019 @08:14AM (#20262699)
From what I can tell, the "trees came before tree-eating-fungi" theory is discredited:

Popular press: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/why-was-most-of-the-...

Full paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2442

Contextual overview: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2334

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