Friday, October 8, 2010

Sorry, Youth

Ha ha [extra-evil laugh], human mother-rapers have unthinkingly yet royally fucked up every aspect of existence they possibly could, from culture to wealth distribution. Now The NYT informs us of other parts of the physical/natural world that have been brought to the brink.
Q.
What do you see as the biggest risk from current trajectories for altered nitrogen flows?

A.
Nitrogen is one of the “big six” elements that is required for all life. The other five are hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. These six elements make all the building blocks – the proteins, nucleic acids, fats, starches. We can’t live without fixed nitrogen – and with 2 to 2.5 billion more mouths to feed in the next 40 to 50 years, we need to fix more nitrogen to grow food. In the end, the nitrogen we use winds up in rivers or in the atmosphere. The rivers flow to the oceans, where the fixed nitrogen allows algae to bloom and then die – and leads to massive fish kills. In the atmosphere, a portion of the nitrogen winds up as nitrous oxide – laughing gas – which is not only a greenhouse gas that is 300 times more potent that carbon dioxide, but also destroys ozone, the gas that keeps us from getting more of a dose of UV radiation. So, this isn’t a joke – we’re talking about humans polluting the oceans and atmosphere at their peril.
One of the things keeping us going is the hope of watching when the saturated fat-saturated bodies of millions of Americans spontaneously combust, burning down their ticky-tacky box houses & releasing the toxic gases in the plastic crap w/ which they surround themselves, resulting in a vast continental conflagration.

7 comments:

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

zombies celebrate.

M. Bouffant said...

MIsanthropy Ed.:

What a species! Somebody's always profiting from misery. Even the dead yet hungry ones.

Substance McGravitas said...

This is where the transhumanists walk across the horizon in giant transformer bodies, crushing all before them.

M. Bouffant said...

Psychic Ed. Imagines:

giant transformer bodies on giant motorized scooters.

Nualgi said...

We have an unique new solution to deal with Nitrogen [and Phosphorus] in water.

We use Diatom Algae to consume the nutrients.

Diatoms are good food for fish and hence do not cause fish kills, in fact fish will benefit from Diatoms.

Diatoms require silica, iron, etc.
Human action does not put these in water, that is why Diatoms do not bloom in sewage and polluted water.

We have a patented product NUALGI to provide the inputs required by Diatoms.

best regards

Bhaskar
www.kadambari.net

Smut Clyde said...

I call your attention to the closing paragraphs of The Sheep Look Up, when a couple of observers in Ireland notice the smoke drifting over the Atlantic from the West.

M. Bouffant said...

"Ooh, Look, Problem Solved," Editor Tries To Remember:

It's been almost 40yrs.; is it a greasy pall of smoke?