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I Can't Believe That Some People Don’t Believe In Global Warming?
Author : Neil Simmons
Submitted : 2011-07-24 Word Count : 624 Popularity: Not Rated
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I can’t quite understand how people don’t get this. Let me ask you this, if I punch you in the face will you bruise? You probably think this is a silly question because of course you would. Well, you might just go read if it was a b**ch slap but the point is something will happen. Action and reaction. So what really happens, well the capillaries and sometimes venules in your face will be damaged by trauma, allowing blood to seep into the surrounding interstitial tissues thus creating a bruise, bla bla bla.
So, if you hypothetically punched the planet in the face, then it will bruise too. We all know that plants using photosynthesis absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. So, travel back in time 10,000 years (which is a blip in the Earth’s history), and travel back way beyond that, there was a very long time when the Earth (without much or any human interference) was covered with vegetation for the atmosphere to develop as it has. Remove the vegetation, as we have, and the bruise will start to develop.
Clearly, if there are less plants, and less trees on the planet, there is less oxygen being released, and less carbon dioxide being removed from the overall equation.
When most people think of global warming, they probably think of fossil fuel power plants giving off tonnes of smoke, or a traffic jammed motorway giving off tonnes of smoke, or just tonnes of smoke in general. Of course, this is also a significant cause of global warming, but most people probably don’t think of roads, or playgrounds, or runways, or just plain farms. In fact, everything that isn’t forest, woods or jungle, because this was what we have replaced. Yes, even farms are causing a bruise. You probably think that farms or golf courses are good because they do actually contain vegetation, but an acre or grass or maize does not absorb as much carbon dioxide as an acre of trees.
You probably think that you lovely lawn yard is environmentally friendly. Think again. Add a few large trees and you would be excused if you said your yard was environmentally friendly, give or take a bit.
So what can you do about it? Well, apart from planting a few more trees on your property, not much actually. This is an issue. If I punch you in the face, you will bruise. If I kept on punching, it would get very ugly indeed. Add a few trees would soften the punch intensity, but that doesn’t help much. What you really need is one of those boxing helmets that they use in the Olympics. With one of those, I could go on punching and it wouldn’t get nasty at all.
So what is the boxing helmet? Renewable energies are one thing of course. Many companies are now offering renewable energy like Solar Panels, such as these companies - www.whataresolarpanels.co.uk and www.solarpanels-solarenergy.co.uk, but how about a carbon tax? Every single manufactured product on the planet should be subject to a carbon tax. This could be applied as an additional Value Added Tax. Every company on the planet would need to accept an inspection of their manufacturing facilities by an independent body set up to quantify the carbon emissions of that company. Companies that did not accept such an inspection would need to automatically be categorised into a high carbon bracket. A carbon tax could then be applied, for convenience grouped into brackets such as A-E, with A imposing the lowest Carbon VAT, and E imposing the highest Carbon VAT.
Maybe this isn’t the best way, but it’s an idea.
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