I have lived at this apartment for around 7 years or so. Before that I lived accross the street. I’m 72 and can’t walk so I stay around the house alot. I like to drink my coffee outside in the morning, enjoying the sunshine. I look out the same windows a lot. I see the same trees a lot. I know things about trees and shrubs and grass, because I had a landscape construction company for over 17 years. I dealt with live plants all day every day.
I want you to look out your window and see if you see what I see. I see the leaves plentiful and large for this time of year. They are still growing and already the branches are being bent down from the weight. The branches will become stronger because of this bending. There are a lot more leaves and they are larger than other years.
The trees accross the way are fuller than I remember. I can’t see through the leaves and see daylight from the other side. I look at the tops of the trees and can’t spot any dead branches sticking up above the tree. That happens when the tree isn’t healthy or there’s not enough nutrients to reach all the way to the top. This year the trees are healthy.
The trees love CO2! With enough CO2 in the air, over time, this place would turn into a jungle rainforest rather than a semi-arid desert.
The trees are making oxygen. All hail the mighty trees that produce the very oxygen that we need to live.
Some people want to eliminate much of the co2 that we produce. Wouldn’t that be tampering with the very food source of the plant world? You call that effort reform to help humans survive the long term and you call spewing out co2 unnatural, but stopping the plants food source is the unnatural thing. Humans are natural and what humans do is natural. Sure ice may melt. We’re made of star stuff, living on a spinning rock, hurling around the sun. We’re just along for the ride. We have only one guarantee, that we won’t get out of this alive.