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	<title>Comments on: Earth Day as if Earth mattered</title>
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	<description>examining transformative technology</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;making lots of stuff from carbon-bearing materials such as paper, and burying them in landfills after one use, is probably the most efficient and easily-adopted form of carbon sequestration&quot;

Citation needed.  

I don&#039;t think full-tilt industrial consumption of plant and animal natural resources with the intent to bury the product in a landfill is an efficient way to sequester carbon.

Manufacturing &quot;carbon-bearing materials such as paper&quot; probably emits more carbon than the final product contains.  And most carbon laden materials are organic thus biodegradable - certainly paper is.

So we&#039;d emit CO2 and stuff making the products, then bury it where it will decay into methane, which is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2.  Doesn&#039;t really sound like much of a carbon-sequestration strategy to me.

But I do hope that new tech like nanotech will help us stabilize our life-support system.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;making lots of stuff from carbon-bearing materials such as paper, and burying them in landfills after one use, is probably the most efficient and easily-adopted form of carbon sequestration&#8221;</p>
<p>Citation needed.  </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think full-tilt industrial consumption of plant and animal natural resources with the intent to bury the product in a landfill is an efficient way to sequester carbon.</p>
<p>Manufacturing &#8220;carbon-bearing materials such as paper&#8221; probably emits more carbon than the final product contains.  And most carbon laden materials are organic thus biodegradable &#8211; certainly paper is.</p>
<p>So we&#8217;d emit CO2 and stuff making the products, then bury it where it will decay into methane, which is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2.  Doesn&#8217;t really sound like much of a carbon-sequestration strategy to me.</p>
<p>But I do hope that new tech like nanotech will help us stabilize our life-support system.</p>
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		<title>By: JamesG</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Agreed. Nanotechnology should be the main goal of everyone, it is the perfect &#039;green&#039; technology, it will allow everything we do to be &#039;green.&#039;  If only we could get a mega-rich person or a major government to see the light, millions of people could be saved from an unnecesary death, and imo all the world&#039;s problems will be solved that much sooner.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Agreed. Nanotechnology should be the main goal of everyone, it is the perfect &#8216;green&#8217; technology, it will allow everything we do to be &#8216;green.&#8217;  If only we could get a mega-rich person or a major government to see the light, millions of people could be saved from an unnecesary death, and imo all the world&#8217;s problems will be solved that much sooner.</p>
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		<title>By: About That Earth Day&#8230; &#171; Tai-Chi Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3015#comment-835442</link>
		<dc:creator>About That Earth Day&#8230; &#171; Tai-Chi Policy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] by taoist in Environmentalism.  Tags: Earth Day, Global Warming, Philosophy, Religion, Technology trackback  Some thoughts over at the Foresight Institute. I myself am similarly turned away from thereligious aspects of the environmental movement, as well as fairly outraged at the tendency of the environmentalists to work against any and all technological developments. While they&#8217;re primarily concerned with nanotechnology over at the Foresight Institute, I find that even many technologies and developments that could help us today offend environmentalists - and those are developments that are win-win, helping not only the environment, but society. After all, rich societies are the only ones that have the luxury of really worrying about the environment. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] by taoist in Environmentalism.  Tags: Earth Day, Global Warming, Philosophy, Religion, Technology trackback  Some thoughts over at the Foresight Institute. I myself am similarly turned away from thereligious aspects of the environmental movement, as well as fairly outraged at the tendency of the environmentalists to work against any and all technological developments. While they&#8217;re primarily concerned with nanotechnology over at the Foresight Institute, I find that even many technologies and developments that could help us today offend environmentalists &#8211; and those are developments that are win-win, helping not only the environment, but society. After all, rich societies are the only ones that have the luxury of really worrying about the environment. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Blog Archive » Earth &#8230; &#124; Nano Broadcast</title>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3015#comment-835378</link>
		<dc:creator>Blog Archive » Earth &#8230; &#124; Nano Broadcast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Current-day methods of manufacturing and energy production, even current-day nanotechnology , are messy and inefficient. Eutactic nanotechnology , in which we control not only the structure of the result at a complete, atom-by-atom level, &#8230; Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion » Blog Archive » Earth &#8230; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Current-day methods of manufacturing and energy production, even current-day nanotechnology , are messy and inefficient. Eutactic nanotechnology , in which we control not only the structure of the result at a complete, atom-by-atom level, &#8230; Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion » Blog Archive » Earth &#8230; [...]</p>
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