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Article: Sucking carbon.(carbon cycle)
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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THE CARBON CYCLE. It's sort of like "what goes around comes around." Actually, it's more like when you're walking down the street and you see a huge hornets' nest in a tree and decide, what the heck, and throw a rock at it. Now you're running down the street like crazy wishing you had a big vacuum cleaner to suck up all the hornets like you once saw in a cartoon.
Get real. They don't make hornet-vacuums, and you shouldn't have been messing with that hornets' nest to begin with, because ... well ... what goes around comes around.
On the brighter side, if the carbon cycle is a "what goes around comes around" sort of thing, ...