The Environmental Costs of Cotton

Tree Hugger ^ | 3/28/21 | Fredric Beaudray

[P.O.E.]

Oh my. LOL

[GenXPolymath]

You can take chicken feathers and turn it into fibers of either silk like softness or wool like warmth they all are the same animal protein polymer. Dissolve the proteins in a organic solvent push that through a spinner and Bob’s your uncle. Why chicken feathers because there is millions of lbs a year of it going to landfills or being put in the ground as compost.

Another choice is use cellulose from whatever source you choose the list is legion being the most common biological polymer on the planet. From the forests to the oceans cellulose is what holds plants together. Dissolve that in acetone,or a similar polar solvent then again push that through a spinner nozzle at pressure making fiber of what ever thickness you desire from silk to cotton. Cellulose to fiber has a commercial name rayon it’s over 50 years old. Humans will never be short of fiber it’s how cheap do you want it. Scientists have been GMO blue green algae to grow in salt water and excrete cellulose and sucrose directly to the growth medium. Blue green algae are the most efficient converters of sunlight to mass of any organism ten times that of land plants while using brackish or salt water nothing else could grow in. Remember cows eat cellulose as their primary energy source and monogastrics eat sucrose a six carbon sugar as our primary energy source. Having a ten times increase per square meter of land area is no small feat.

[Verginius Rufus]

If there had been no African slavery in the US (slavery practiced by indigenous groups can be disregarded) instead of condemning Thomas Jefferson for being a slave owner they could condemn him for calling the noble red man “merciless Indian savages” in the Declaration of Independence.

[Verginius Rufus]

In earlier times chicken feathers were sometimes worn as clothing (after applying tar first).

[going hot]

Underlayment application is always critical for a good fit.

[GenXPolymath]

In earlier times real men were around to do such things. Good luck getting American fighting age males today.

What are the odds anyone over 50 is going to pick up a pitchfork let alone a rifle I would say it is close to zero. So it’s up to genX,genZ some Xrs are still in fighting shape and could hump a full battle rattle up a hill under fire this one could but we are few and far between. GenZ are not half but closer to 65% commies they won the educational battle and have two generations firmly in their corner. Gen alpha is even worse than zoomers at being aligned with Marxism. All the commies have to do is wait out the boomers to die and they win by demographics alone. There will be no civil war there is only one side with the numbers to field actual trigger pullers. Who controls the youth controls the fighting age combatants.