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- From: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: The Browning of America
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 02:15:21 GMT
- Organization: lbl
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- References: <By0yCF.6oG@world.std.com> <JMC.92Nov20135714@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Reply-To: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
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- In article <JMC.92Nov20135714@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John
- McCarthy) writes:
- |> In article <By0yCF.6oG@world.std.com> rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker)
- |> writes:
- |> <<text deleted>>
- |> Can we restore Americas topsoile by collecting human feces, and
- |> composting our leaves, grass and garbage.
- |> <<text deleted>>
- |> Does anyone have any solid numbers on this.
- |>
- |> Just a Gardener
- |>
- |> 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.
- |> --
- |> John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- |> He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
-
- The interesting comparison here would be the amount of compost
- one could get from cow manure and the amount of topsoil
- attitibutable to cattle, both their direct activity, and in
- growing feed crops.
-
- Bruce Nordman
- B_Nordman@lbl.gov
-