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You never produced, you can only recycle.
New greenhouse gases are produced where they produce fertilizer for the foods you eat.
Well no, you can produce methane from other hydrocarbons. You eat stuff and fart out methane
Methane becomes CO2 which is absorbed by plants we eat to produce methane again. Recycling.
I mean where do you draw the line between this sort of recycling and just a conservation of matter / energy argument in which just about everything is "recycled" instead of produced?
In terms of atmospheric carbon, it's either newly brought up from underground petroleum, or it's recycled from what's already up here. If you care for volcanoes, you can add them as a third source.