Unarguably, certain events can synergistically escalate the rate of global warming. Besides the rises in air and sea temperatures, that can also increase extreme weather occurrences. The recent super cell tornado in Florida and the 2006 “freak summer storm” in St. Louis obviously fall into that category. In fact, it seems as though new weather records are being set at, well, a record pace.
All such disasters are massively destructive to trees. Gale-force winds, heavy ice and snow, and super twisters wreak havoc wherever they touch land. Palm trees, evergreens and all kinds of deciduous trees – large and small – are yanked up by the roots. At least 350 trees in St. Louis’s historic Tower Gove Park were destroyed in a 4 month period, with hundreds of others mutilated. Hurricanes and tsunamis are equally devastating. It’s nature-made deforestation.
It finally occurred to me that this tree loss exacerbates the whole process of global warming. One of the causes has been the wanton, human deforestation of places like the Amazon basin. Fewer trees mean less conversion of CO2 to oxygen and less shade to reflect and defuse the sun’s rays. Humans are to blame for that.
Now man and nature are both destroying our leafy protectors.
The resultant extreme storms are destroying still more trees, further escalating the loss—storms destroy trees which further exacerbates global warming. How many other “direct results” are already contributing to this vicious cycle?
And why is it that not one of the largest polluting countries – the U. S., India and China – is willing to step forward and bite the bullet on manmade pollution?
That would be true, bold leadership ~
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So is the problem with deforestation, or with "manmade polution?" I think I missed a turn somewhere. My own belief is that until those governments take care of the small piece of pie they are responsible for, the rest of those who are seriously concerned with global warming should continue to remain vegetarian. As has been determined through countless studies (http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0220/p03s01-ussc.html) global warming is caused more by non-human animals than human animals. The best that non-governmental humans can do is to stop consuming animals.
But herein lies the point of interest to me. While most global warming enthusiasts would love for successful nations to sign some sort of Kyoto treaty-like agreement to essentially tax those bad, bad large, successful businesses, not many people are willing to go vegetarian to solve the problem at a personal level. The global warming groups don't seem as interested in solving the actual problem as they do implementing their primary agenda of socialism by punishing the "haves" and bringing them closer to the "have nots."
Let the first one who disagrees with me stand up and say, "I am vegetarian because I want to do my part to stop global warming!" and I will applaud your understanding of the issue.
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