Napoleon once said: "Only a foolish horse fights with his nose bag." Today we have many foolish people fighting their nose bag.  They are weakening Earth's food chain with a war on carbon. Carbon is the building block of life.  "Organic" means "containing carbon," and every bit of plant and animal life is built around the carbon atom. Carbon enters Earth's cycle of life via plants, which extract it from the rare and precious carbon dioxide plant food in the atmosphere.  Living things use this carbon, plus water, oxygen, and minerals, to create the proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and skeletons they need. Plant growth responds quickly to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  However, today's levels are far below those that sustained the abundant forests, grasslands, wetlands, herbivores, and carnivores of past eras. The biggest long-term threat to abundant life on Earth is natural carbon...(Read Full Post)