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Re:Australia wildfires: 500M animals and plants killed as gl... by ratboy666 on Friday January 03, 2020 @05:19PM (#21950978)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101102131108.h...

Indicates that baseline is 2T/year/human (in Spain).

840lbs to 6710lbs (resting to active) exhalation. Which means, not below 0.5T/year/human. We are at 20T/year/human here in Canada -- but, of course, at 8953 trees/human, with each tree absorbing 48lbs of CO2/year, Canada absorbs 215T/year/human (carbon negative in Canada by 195T/year/human).

What action would you like? Carbon tax? We have that. Eliminate oil production? Working on that (no pipelines being built, tar-sands bitumen not being sold to anyone but the US).

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/9789264279612-en/index.h...

Personally, I prefer not to freeze, so burn natural gas to heat my house. Really big country, need transport.

I imagine that I could use wood heating could be used - 2 cords per season should be sufficient (6 to 20 trees, depending on diameter - 8 to 14 inches). I previously (20 years ago) converted all wood burning to natural gas, but could convert back. I no longer own enough land for my tree needs but (afair) 2 acres for food, 4 acres for fuel, so 6 acres of land of be sufficient for my needs.

This would reduce my carbon footprint, but would be more polluting -- which would you prefer?

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