This isn't about homes, their focus is on commercial buyers, who want to e.g. include bananas in fruit salads and whatnot.

Man, you must be... at least mid-70s? Even my parents are too young, and I feel old ;)

Anyway, congrats on living this long, and I hope you have many more good years ahead of you :)

(And yes there are, you can order them from rare fruit growers, if you're willing to shell out for it ;) )

I'm trying to figure out what you're talking about. Are you maybe talking about PEPC binding of bicarbonate and dissolved CO2? That's a replenishing / balancing pathway for the citric acid cycle to make up for the plant robbing from it when it sequesters nitrogen (and to restore pH). It contributes at best 1-2% of the plant's carbon, and that's only if nitrogen uptake is very heavy. And bicarbonate and CO2 (they form an equilibrium) are not "soil carbon"; they're not part of the soil, they're just gas dissolved in soil moisture; the same applies equally whether the plant were grown in rich fertile humus or totally inert sterile perlite. Humus is inert and decay-resistant (that's why it persists).

A couple other guesses as to what you mean. Scavenging of free amino acids from decaying matter? Plants do that to capture nitrogen. Any carbon captured inadvertently in the process is completely irrelevant in scale. They can also pick up very tiny amounts of sugars - not physiologically relevant.

Or are you saying that soil matter rots, CO2 returns to the air, and then plants "breathe" it in? I mean, it's... technically true? But it's still atmospheric CO2 at that point, in an atmosphere shared with all life.

If not, I'm baffled. Maybe you're confusing "corn is a heavy feeder" with thinking that means carbon? (that's about fertilizer). Or perhaps you're confusing how effective corn is at capturing carbon and depositing it in soil with thinking that that's coming from the soil? I'm just guessing here.

That necessity is based on what I said it's based on, so clearly I know all about what you brought up. I do live here, you know.

I would have left long ago if I could afford to. Alas I misspent my youth when I had good earnings.

The question is stupid because you're a Nazi

If you don't have anything of value to say how come you keep producing output?

Lol the know nothing defense squad came to the rescue knowing he was unarmed

"Plants do not need soil carbon."

Some do use some carbon from soil. Corn uses more than most.

Lol rent free

Accurate. With the government at least there is the potential for redress of grievances. Corporations don't care, won't care, and increasingly don't have to. All of mankind's greatest achievements were through collectivism.

This is the shittiest poem I've ever read.

How about "Don't Hate Me Because My Getty Money is Beautiful"?

"So we're gaining more rain forests and crop land? I'm no denier"

So we're going with "spectacularly ignorant" then?

Please, for the love of God, read the article...