Many countries don’t give a rats ass about the Paris Climate Accord, especially developing nations. This was something that was brought up some time ago in another thread, but I’ll post it again:
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Doesn’t matter what it means to some people. It matters what we agree upon as a community. That’s why I like deed restrictions, rather than zoning laws.
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Samm
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Strip mining is a traditional manner.
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Samm
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They have deluded themselves into believing that it’s carbon neutral because … they say … the trees were specifically grown to fuel the plants. 
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If only we all had went nuclear in the 70s.
We wouldn’t be fighting over this today.
Nuclear was the answer.
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e7alr
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I guess they don’t realize that the fossil fuels all started out as biomass.
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Gaius
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Nownow.
The firewood I burned would have rotted on the ground and released its carbon that way.
BTW what happens when you use wood for a houses or furniture or paper?
Except for a few antique houses and antique documents eventually they fall into disuse, get scrapped, they rot and their carbon is released/
Converting wood to paper or furniture etc. does not permanently lock in the carbon. It is released same as if it were burned.
Samm
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Or it could lay on the ground, building up layer after layer, get covered by sediment and eventually be compressed into coal where it will be found by some future species, dug up and burned to produce power. Net zero CO2. 
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Gaius
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Rotting wood (and leaves) smells like rotting wood (and leaves) because it is rotting and turning to gas. It releases ammonia and methane. That’s what you smell.
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas. It is 5X more powerful than CO2. Eventually (decades I think) it turns into CO2.
When you walk in the woods you will notice . . . fallen trees are not getting buried.
Samm
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Where do you think coal came from?
Gaius
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Very old plants and soil that got buried.
If it were the rule. If the conditions for converting plants and soil into coal happened most/all of the time, the earth would contain a perfect layer of coal everywhere. If trees did not usually rot but instead usually turned into coal then under every back yard and every coal field and every cow pasture would be a layer of coal.
Did you ever see a compost pile?
Samm
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Why are you asking me questions as though you are taking to a twelve year old?
tnt
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There are tons of regulations on your neighbor building a house across the way. Including how tall it could be how large and what lights can be on the exterior. Many of these regulations are guided by the over all look and visual….what’s the right word?….impact? On neighbors.
conan
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Much more expensive and much more dangerous.
All because you don’t like looking at it.
It still is.
I’ll take a Small Modular Reactor for my home, please.
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That all depends on where you go.