Rob Moir
1 min readFeb 5, 2021

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Don’t mistake an elephant inside a snake for a hat. You are playing with our ignorance of scale and what sounds to an individual who believes in individualism as enormous overwhelming numbers. A teaspoon of soil may have 8 billion micro organisms in it. Your stomach and my gut has around 10 billion bacteria in it. Upset that balance and you’ll have a stomach ache or worse. Nature organizes and to live requires vast collaborations, symbiosis. The number of cattle and sheep in the world has increased ten times and yet no noticeable increase in atmospheric methane. Why? Methane last about 12 years compared to CO2 hundreds of years. Methane concentration in the air is one thousandths CO2. So just because the methane molecule is ten times the weight of carbon, it don’t matter when managing for Climate Change. To save us from climate change we must decrease our carbon footprints and increase the draw down of CO2 out of the atmosphere. Children herding cattle to maintain intensive grazing stimulating plant photosynthesis does more good than plowing and fertilizing soy and corn fields regardless of your diet. The high-tech hoe and plow started global warming changing the climate for the worse.

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Rob Moir
Rob Moir

Written by Rob Moir

Rob Moir is writing environmental nonfiction and writes for the Ocean River Institute and the Global Warming Solutions IE-PAC newsletter.

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