From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@msx.upmc.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 24 2002 - 20:34:12 MST
spike66new [mailto:spike66@ATTBI.com] wrote:
Had not humanity come along, all Gaia's lifeforms would eventually perish
for want of calcium and phosphorus, long ere lack of carbon would
become a serious issue, long ere fatal global cooling as a result of
atmospheric shortage of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and
methane.
### While I share your contempt and hatred for the Greens, I this case you
might be incorrect - the natural processes of plate tectonics continuously
recycle Earth's crust, and indeed the majority of the mineral constituents
of our bodies are derived from weathered igneous and sedimentary rocks.
Rafal
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