You could also take the diesel from the genengineered mangroves and pump it directly into depleted oil domes underground -- instead of burying coal precursors you'd simply bury oil directly. It would still take centuries or millenia of doing this to get the CO2 load in the atmosphere down to, say, 350 ppm or about what it was fifty years ago (it's now about 400ppm and rising) and of course you'd be sequestering an important energy resource...
]]>Not necessarily. Without the fear of brown-skinned Others driving angry white folks to the polls I doubt the Muslims who would have voted for Republican tickets would have been sufficient to flip the results by any significant amount. I note, for example, the odious Republican Michelle Bachmann who has made a political career out of ostentatious Muslim-bashing was re-elected to Congress although by a slim margin.
Besides, reading the blog in question it becomes clear that the writer is living in the past herself in a world where the Muslim community is still lockstep patriarchical and there are few if any non-practicing Muslims around. She is fixated on the mosque and religion being the centre of Muslim-Americans and their experience in the US; indeed she is very careful to exclude the black American-Muslim world from her purview, focussing only on immigrant Muslim communities from the middle East (and possibly places like Indonesia too although that is not clear from the one blog entry of hers I have read).
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