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Quote by: SteveA Though I recognize that there are some legitimate concerns over pollution, I think much of the environmental laws are merely a tool for government to get its foot in the door controlling private industries. CO2 itself can't be the source of global warming because it's a small fraction of a percent of the composition of the atmosphere, and you'd need a large percentage change to change things significantly. Besides, if CO2 increases, vegitation grows faster to consume it, so there's a natural balance to the system. Greens should thank the oil industries for recycling organic material by bringing up old carbon compounds that had previously been under the ground, so new life can use it. We're adding to the carbon cycle, and if it was really an issue, we could always bury a few forests to remove the carbon from the system.
I've heard there are more trees in the U.S. now than a couple hundred years ago, and looking around at many of the cities with trees that were created in the middle of a semi-desert, or considering the ability of humans to stop forest fires that would otherwise spread very far, I can believe it. |
I don't know where you've gotten your misinformation from but I think you need to look up the facts; we're losing huge amounts of Trees in the rest of the world. I'm pretty sure we can trust
NASA when it tells us that Global deforestation is a problem.
Just what exactly do you mean by burying forests to remove the carbon? Where will you move all the wildlife? How about instead, we use less fossil fuels instead?