According to The Earth Institute, CO2 is a greenhouse gas as it traps heat that would otherwise escape the earths atmosphere. In contrast, Oxygen and Nitrogen gases do not behave the same way.
This prompts more questions than The Earth Institute would like to think about:
1) Don't humans as well as cattle emit CO2 when exhaling?
Of course we do? So, it would seem, this means that the only way to save the planet is to wipe out a large number of humans!
Or is it?
As we all learned in grade school. We live in a most wonderful ecosystem, in which Humans breath Oxygen and exhale Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Our partners in the ecosystem are plants. Plants are our equalizers. They consume Carbon Dioxide and expel Oxygen.
Unfortunately, the cycle has been damaged by enormous deforestation across the globe. So, there is a simple fix to our CO2 problem: Plant more trees!!!
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