| This article is made up of my answers to two | | | | maybe, Governments will then have no excuse |
| questions at Yahoo answers about global | | | | to tax your hard earned money for fighting |
| warming, taxes and trees: Global warming is a | | | | Global Warming. |
| real issue. Whether man can control it or not | | | | |
| is another issue. However, I don't understand | | | | Another guy wrote at Yahoo Answers that the |
| why a Government should tax her citizens | | | | forest in his area of U.S. are really |
| because of global warming. | | | | increasing instead of depleting, because more |
| | | | trees have been planted since the 1930s to |
| Global warming is not caused by a particular | | | | date: |
| country alone. Burning of fossil fuel, coal | | | | |
| and firewood knows no boundaries. There are | | | | It is elementary knowledge that trees and all |
| no boundaries in the sky where the effect of | | | | greeneries use carbon dioxide as we and other |
| green house gases causes global warming, nor | | | | animals use oxygen. So it is quite gratifying |
| does polluted air remain in one country...it | | | | to hear your story regarding tree planting in |
| blows in the wind. | | | | your area What it means is that the new |
| | | | forests are helping to clean up the mess the |
| What Government should do is encourage people | | | | industries and automobiles are making of our |
| and industries to find alternatives to gas, | | | | environment. But unfortunately there are a |
| coal and firewood or scale down on the causes | | | | lot of other dangerous chemicals released |
| of global warming by changing to green | | | | into the environment daily that trees and |
| alternative sources of energy. If you live in | | | | greeneries don't filter. |
| a low level area near the seas in some | | | | |
| countries and experience the flooding and | | | | I am a keen environmentalist, which was one |
| advancement of the ocean, you will know that | | | | reason I converted my car to using water for |
| the die is really cast. | | | | gas. But I am, however, disheartened that in |
| | | | places like Africa, the forest is |
| Personally what I have done to contribute to | | | | continuously cleared for firewood and no |
| fighting global warming is convert my car to | | | | replanting is being done. |
| using water for gas. This I hope will make | | | | |
| some, though not noticeable, impact on the | | | | The danger in ignoring what is happening in |
| environment and reduce global warming. | | | | African forests, like I said elsewhere, is |
| | | | that the environment and global warming make |
| If a lot of people including you do the same, | | | | the world even a smaller...global hamlet. |
| the dangerous emissions harming our earth | | | | Damages done to the African forest can still |
| will be reduced to the barest minimum and, | | | | cause havoc here in the U.S. |