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this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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Not really a fair comparison.
Fossil fuels have been sequestered for tens to hundreds of millions of years and represent additionally hundreds of millions of years of carbon accretion.
And we burn enough fossil fuels that it's like burning down the entire Amazon rain forest every couple months.
So over a year or so. That's kind of like burning down every piece of vegetation, and every building, and pretty much anything that's flammable on the surface of the Earth ... burnt to ashes and dust.
How that's as bad as burning some wood pellets I'm really not sure how you conflate such things....
Another important thing is that the vast majority of petroleum (crude oil) came from sea life, algae and plankton, which still act as "carbon sinks" but are dying off in the oceans thanks to pollution, acidification and warmer waters.