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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: The Browning of America
- In-Reply-To: rjk@world.std.com's message of 20 Nov 92 17:09:50 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:57:14
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- In article <By0yCF.6oG@world.std.com> rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker) writes:
- When non aboriginals started farming the Great Plains there was nearly two
- feet of topsoil underneath all that waving grass. Most is gonzo now. Now I
- have a serious question which only seems facetious:
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- Can we restore Americas topsoile by collecting human feces, and
- composting our leaves, grass and garbage.
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- How much would it cost to do so?
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- How long would it take?
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- I suspect if we don't do something like this now or soon, this continent
- may become a famine area in a century or sooner.
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- Does anyone have any solid numbers on this.
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- Just a Gardener
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- What is a mere calculation in face of a Gardener's suspicions?
- But why not cow manure? There is a lot more of it than human feces.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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