Environmentalists~Treehuggers Unite!

2004-12-31 [bluewolfgirl]: I'm joining! The way the world is today is sad and sicking!

2005-01-01 [hippychick]: yay!!!!!! goodo another soldier at our side wohoooo lol, :)

2005-01-19 [Pet Rock]: Can I join? I had a best friend for decades that I used to talk to until someone cut him down for firewood. Bastards!!!

2005-01-19 [Lady Erunáme]: Oh, that's sad! I'm so sorry!

2005-01-19 [rinaweeena]: *hug*

2005-01-19 [Pet Rock]: ah, I'd hug you back I really don't have any arms

2005-01-19 [hippychick]: oo, conversation killer lol, *look there goes the tumble wead* lol, so how u all anyway

2005-02-24 [Talk Southern To Me]: Oh may I join! I have been waiting to meet people who care about the earth as much as I do! Everyone thinks I am nuts for thinking Landfills are terrible. Can anyone relate here?

2005-02-24 [Pet Rock]: well landfills do keep a lot of the waste contained. It would be better if people were less wasteful, recycled, and didn't buy stuff they didn't need or that creates a lot of trash, thereby reducing the amount of trash and the number of landfills needed to contain that trash.

2005-02-24 [Lady Erunáme]: I can't understand why everything needs a package! Can't we just but the item? Does food have to be served in individually wrapped containers?

2005-02-24 [Pet Rock]: well, it's often a matter of sanitation. All the packaging needs to be made either biodegradable (and I mean it biodegrades in a month tops, none of this century crap) or recyclable.

2005-02-25 [Lady Erunáme]: I'm kind of an idealist, so I think we should grow and hunt our own food...

2005-02-25 [Pet Rock]: there's nothing wrong with idealists, and there's nothing wrong with your idea, except that 80% of the world's population would have to go away before that could happen.

2005-03-01 [Lady Erunáme]: They'd better change, or else they're going to have to grow their own livlihoods when nuclear weapons destroy their lifestyles!

2005-03-01 [Pet Rock]: provided pollution, disease, or mother nature doesn't do it first.

2005-03-06 [Pet Rock]: interesting story on fish populations http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/03/01/cod.stocks.reut/index.html

2005-03-18 [challie]: hollo everybody

2005-04-10 [undeadmary]: Pet Rock, you seem to have a answer for everybody. Whats your feelings on the destruction of the rainforest to make cheap livestock feilds? Is there any hope left in the world or are we all going to slowly kill ourselves in the process of filling up our wallets?

2005-04-12 [Pet Rock]: Well I'll start with the first one. It is absolutely critical to keep those rainforests intact and to recover forests that have been destroyed, not because of the endangered habitats or potential medicines, but because of greenhouse gases contributing to global warming. These gases are for the most part carbon based. Plants and phytoplankton have the ability to take these carbonated gases and covert them into organic material and oxygen. The problem is, disrupting the plant portion of the equation significantly decreases the amount of carbon absorbed in the biosphere. A recent study showed that scientists' original hope of making up for the rainforest disruption through phytoplankton

2005-04-12 [Pet Rock]: has proven false. Phytoplankton only have the ability to temporarily remove carbon from the atmosphere. The carbon does not filter down to lower parts of the ocean and become "trapped." Effectively, phytoplankton are about as good as sinking carbon as your lawn, which releases carbon everytime it's mowed. Forests, on the other hand, with their trees have an increased ability to trap carbon and keep it out of the atmosphere. But the increasing devastation of forest tracts worldwide negatively affects the ability to sink carbon in this manner.

2005-04-12 [Pet Rock]: For those who are not aware, the biggest threat of global warming is the rising of the oceans. Even though the raise will only be a couple of feet, that will cross a critical threshold that will cause flooding worldwide, precipitating worldwide humanitarian and economic disasters.