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