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It was from Minds of Our Own. Incidentally there were also Harvard profs
who said the same thing, and most biology graduates that I have asked this
also said the soil.
John M. Clement
Houston, TX
Was this from "A Private Universe" or "Minds of Our Own"?
This leads to a "Fermi" problem: How much forest growth is necessary to
balance the world's production of CO2?
bc, who was surprised that there is max. only ~ 6.7% C in a sat soln. in
iron. It's a similar reason / calculation.
John M Clement wrote:
As surprising as the answer to how much CO_2 is produced, the reverse
question is just as interesting and could not be answered by most
Harvard graduates.
Given a wooden log, where did most of the mass of the log come from.
Most Harvard graduates said the soil.
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