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Re:Red seaweed supplementation reduces enteric methane by ov... by jhayward on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:04AM (#26541837)
Coal and oil come from carbon captured during the Carboniferous period, before the evolution of species of bacteria and fungi that could digest the lignin in plants.

Coal and oil formation is not being fed by plant life today. The carbon in plants is recycled rather quickly in to the ecosphere.

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Re:Red seaweed supplementation reduces enteric methane by ov... by xphilter on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:24AM (#26542140)
Fair. So then I would augment my comment to focus just on soil production in the wild. Not all of the plant debris is being composted. It gets buried too.
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Re:Red seaweed supplementation reduces enteric methane by ov... by PeterisP on Monday March 22, 2021 @01:21PM (#26543746)
IMHO any plant debris that gets buried in the soil is - in the long term - also composted, only its breakdown is slower.
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