It is said that we don't need to worry about climate change because the earth takes care of itself. Mother Nature fixes all problems, or so the theory goes.
Well, back in March, a study from Ohio State University showed the forest-growing season has inceased by a month since the turn of the 20th Century. You got it: As global warming set in, the warming increased the time span from budburst to peak leaf. More trees are on the way, and that means more carbon dioxide being sucked out of the air.
But, no, this does not mean we do not need to worry about global warming. It does not mean we can just turn things over to Mother Nature and she will lift us out of our troubles. The harmful effects of global warming are not going to wait the thousands of years it would take for the additional trees to eat up the CO2 we have injected into the air. Plus, consider that with global warming has come more forest fires.
Up with the trees, down with the trees.
Man had better do all he can to get us out of this mess. He got us into it, and it is he who must get us out. Man is clearing out so many trees to make room for development that the world's tree coverage is decreasing.
If trees were humans, would this be the world's largest genocide. And the butcher of the Amazon Rainforest is none other than man himself.
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