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Feb 15Edited

Why did we decide that natural carbon dioxide was a bad thing? Trees put out oxygen and we breath out CO2, the plants absorb much of this. It is a symbiotic relationship, self-regulating if you don’t strip all the nutrients and plant life from the soil. Acres of solar farms is a bio wasteland.

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Geo engineering???: The drive for money and power...without any thought to the end results...has put the entire world into jeopardy.

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I think it may have caused an imbalance... I am not a scientist, so I cannot say what degree of impact this has caused.

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LDT, “we” didn’t decide 😉; the “they” did🙃

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True

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Circle of life and balance. If the circle is broken...If the teeter totter slips one way or other... Oxygen is actually poison in large quantities, CO2 at high levels can act as a simple asphyxiant. It's amazing how many non human, lesser living beings can regulate and enhance, whereas we critical thinking, problem solver beings continue to mess it up.

I want to be a part of the solution, not add to the problem.

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I'm not worried about having too much oxygen, are you?? Humans are very resilient. They have adapted in very cold regions, hot and arid regions.

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Feb 15Edited

The word is concerned, not worried. There is a difference. Excess oxygen was not my point. Concern was not for myself so much as young having benefit of healthy planet. Resilient, won't disagree. Incapable of going wrong....well.

Does humanity want to play Russian roulette with our planet, blithely thinking it will just keep on despite our abuse. Planet age 4.5 billion years, humans 300 thousand (give or take), Industrial Age since 1750. We are being ignorant or naive if we think we have had enough time to KNOW what we reap and/or sow.

I'll also repeat...natural causes can also account for climate change. I don't dispute that. Why would a reasoning person discount any/all possibilities. The question is degrees of cause. Which is the greater disrupter. For myself, I'd rather have an honest knowledge base than not. Where that is, I know not.

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