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Plants absorb carbon dioxide. Grow more plants.
by shanev 10y ago
Plants absorb carbon dioxide. Grow more plants.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoFun fact: the US Midwest grows corn, which produces as much oxygen (absorbs as much CO2) as the Amazon Basin. During the summer anyway. So we're growing a lot of plants already.
- jwatte 10y agoMost of the oxygen we breathe comes from plankton. But we don't particularly care for or about the ocean -- we don't see it, and we can make money by ignoring its health. It's the American Way (tm)!
- smb06 10y agoClearly that is not enough because the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are at never seen before levels: http://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/ http://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/
- joshuahaglund 10y agoAnd most of that corn goes to feed cattle, which produce methane (worse than CO2). So, what we do with the plants matters. Do we allow them to sequester the carbon or we put their carbon right back into the atmosphere?
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoUnder 40% these days. In Iowa the largest buyer of corn is Pepsi. Oh! Unless by 'cattle' you meant people?