Quote Originally Posted by adrianh View Post

The whole "save the planet" shtick is also nonsense because it actually means "make it so that the 1st world can live nicely in the suburbs" - look at recycling - it is a total farce because the garbage simply gets pushed onto the 3rd world.
Agreed, Adrian. It is almost like Germany declaring that they are now going green and closing all their stinking coal powered plants. They will be green because they will import nuclear and coal power from France and Russia. (They do not want their own nuclear plants because of the danger of contamination)

I am not a scientist, but I remember from school that plants take carbon dioxide from the air and through a process of photosynthesis, mixing it with water and light, convert it to sugars (carbohydrates) with oxygen as a by product. In other words, plants need carbon dioxide to grow. We need plants to clean the air. That is how this planet was created and programmed. How many of the "green" people may not even know this? Earth is an interdependent ecosystem and things go wrong when people start to interfere.