It is important to put the browns for two reasons. One, to absorb the excess moisture (which will help with the reduction of maggots too). Two, to provide carbon in the final compost mix. Too much moisture will interfere with the composting process, as much as too little moisture. So go ahead and add some cardboard pieces (which works really fast to soak in the moisture) as well as dried leaves.

Hope this helps!

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Climate scientists are speaking out. Where are the population scientists? Why are they not more vocal?

The deliberate silence among population scientists with unfulfilled responsibilities to assume and duties to perform with regard to their skillful examination and careful reporting of extant research on “human population dynamics” cannot be excused by the recognition that such woefully inadequate behavior “exists in all professions”. There is much too much at stake. Scientists have to stand up and consciously speak out about what is true to them, according the ‘lights’ and scientific knowledge they possess.

Solzhenitsyn reported, “One word of truth overcomes the world.” Could it be that for the lack of one word, one word by people in possession of truth, as their lights and science indicate ‘what is’, the world and life as we know it is being destroyed before our eyes? As the sages of old said, perhaps it is time, finally, now and here to “speak the truth as if you are a million voices, for your silence is killing the world.”