PLANT AWAY GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE & AIR CONDITION EARTH
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SCIENCE SAYS WE CAN CONTAIN CO2, PRODUCE OXYGEN, RETAIN MOISTURE, AND COOL THE EARTH, ALL BY INTENSIVE WORLD WIDE PLANTING OF TREES.
You can begin to air condition the earth merely by planting as many trees in your own yard as possible. Trees absorb and hold CO2, while producing oxygen, retaining moisture and effectively cooling the air.
If we encourage our municipal, state and federal governments to intensively plant all of our highway corridors, with indigenous fruit, nut, seed and nectar producing vegetation, not only can we air condition our cities and roadways, but create green corridors which preserve and support plant and animal species in the process. Also, any arable, but yet barren public land should be intensively planted with vegetation.
Since it is our money that would be used to do this, the more of it we spend on our own welfare, the less there is to be siphoned and stolen by special interests. We should penalize corporations who are found guilty of polluting our environment by requiring them to fund the planting efforts.
It seems sequoias once populated most of North America. They are considered to be the ultimate CO2 absorbers and oxygen producers, and come in several varieties. They grow quickly, are very hardy and it takes 500 years for them to become as large as their famous for being.
Evergreens are superior because they transpire; cleaning the air and producing oxygen, continuously year around, while deciduous trees do so only seasonally. But it takes a well considered variety to sustain wildlife and please the eye while doing so.
Perhaps you might want to contact the Whitehouse and ask Mrs. Obama to lead the effort to reforest our public highways and lands, like ladybird Johnson led the highway beautification efforts, decades ago.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
If you wish to read the science on this issue, or check out the organizations promoting reforestation of the earth, follow the links herewith:
http://www.10ba.org/
http://eprenvironmentnews.com/2008/08/22/reforesting-planet-earth-for-the-sake-o...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbJzkDP4I1A
You can begin to air condition the earth merely by planting as many trees in your own yard as possible. Trees absorb and hold CO2, while producing oxygen, retaining moisture and effectively cooling the air.
If we encourage our municipal, state and federal governments to intensively plant all of our highway corridors, with indigenous fruit, nut, seed and nectar producing vegetation, not only can we air condition our cities and roadways, but create green corridors which preserve and support plant and animal species in the process. Also, any arable, but yet barren public land should be intensively planted with vegetation.
Since it is our money that would be used to do this, the more of it we spend on our own welfare, the less there is to be siphoned and stolen by special interests. We should penalize corporations who are found guilty of polluting our environment by requiring them to fund the planting efforts.
It seems sequoias once populated most of North America. They are considered to be the ultimate CO2 absorbers and oxygen producers, and come in several varieties. They grow quickly, are very hardy and it takes 500 years for them to become as large as their famous for being.
Evergreens are superior because they transpire; cleaning the air and producing oxygen, continuously year around, while deciduous trees do so only seasonally. But it takes a well considered variety to sustain wildlife and please the eye while doing so.
Perhaps you might want to contact the Whitehouse and ask Mrs. Obama to lead the effort to reforest our public highways and lands, like ladybird Johnson led the highway beautification efforts, decades ago.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
If you wish to read the science on this issue, or check out the organizations promoting reforestation of the earth, follow the links herewith:
http://www.10ba.org/
http://eprenvironmentnews.com/2008/08/22/reforesting-planet-earth-for-the-sake-o...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbJzkDP4I1A
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