In our desperate race to knee-cap civilization with the panic over global warming, consider the following:
During pre-history, carbon dioxide levels were much higher and earth’s original atmosphere contained zero oxygen. Plants breathe in and consume CO2 the same as how we require oxygen to breathe. Cyano bacteria, and then vegetation grew during prehistory at a tremendous rate, consuming CO2 and expelling the waste product, oxygen, into the atmosphere, all the while trapping massive amounts of carbon in vast mats of dead vegetation that would eventually become huge deposits of coal and other fossil fuels. This unchecked consumption of CO2 by the plant kingdom drew down the level of carbon dioxide to 0.03%. Our current geologic period has the lowest average CO2 levels in the history of earth. This level is the threshold for plant survival. If CO2 levels drop below 0.02% photosynthesis is impossible and plant life will be extinguished on planet earth.
Simultaneously, plant life “polluted” earth’s atmosphere with the waste product oxygen, which has now reached more than 20%. For those who wish to ascribe “cognizant, purposeful actions” to nature, “Mother Earth” created in recent years a new biological entity known as humans to save the earth from a total depletion of CO2. These humans are unique in the animal kingdom in that they sniff out the carbon deposits buried across the globe and return those deposits back to the natural carbon cycle. Mankind and its insatiable appetite for fossil fuel is nature’s way of saving the earth from the otherwise inevitable complete depletion of CO2 and the loss of plant life as we know it. We are not the enemy destroying the earth; we were created just like everything else God and/or nature created, to play a roll. Global warming alarmists just misread what that roll is; to return those fossil fuel deposits to the carbon cycle. In layman’s terms: Drill, baby, drill!