TREES AND GLOBAL WARMING
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 IN THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JIM.... THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TREES AND THE ENVIRONMENT

  HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW HOW A TREE FUNCTIONS AND ITS ROLE IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE?

  OF THE MANY ROLES THE TREE HAS, THE MOST IMPORTANT IS CLEANING THE AIR AND SUPPLYING
 OXYGEN TO THE ATMOSPHERE. AS EARLY AS ONE YEAR OLD, A TREE BEGINS RELEASING OXYGEN INTO
 THE ATMOSPHERE, AND IT CONTINUES THIS PROCESS ITS ENTIRE LIFE. KEEP IN MIND WE ARE REFERRING
 TO EVERGREEN TREES, NOT DECIDUOUS TREES WHICH DROP THEIR LEAVES ONCE A YEAR. EVERGREEN
 TREES AT ONE TIME COVERED 90% OF THE EARTH'S DRYLAND, AND THEY HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO LIVE
 BETWEEN 500 AND 1000 YEARS. THEIR CRONOLOGICIAL RINGS WITHIN THE TRUNK ARE SECOND ONLY
 TO ICE AS NATURES RECORD OF THE PAST.
  TREES PROVIDE ANOTHER FUNCTION DAILY THAT KEEPS THE AIR QUALITY THROUGHOUT THE ATMOSPHERE
 BALANCED AT ACCEPTABLE LEVELS, AND ONCE AGAIN, THESE ARE ONLY EVERGREEN TREES WE ARE TALKING
 ABOUT. THAT FUNCTION IS TO ABSORB CARBON DIOXIDE GASSES RELEASED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.
 IT'S ESTIMATED THAT TREES ABSORB THOUSANDS OF TIMES THEIR WEIGHT IN GASSES RESPONSIBLE
 FOR AIR POLLUTION. AS AN EXAMPLE, THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST IN SOUTH AMERICA CONTAINS AN
 ESTIMATED 45 TO 65 YEARS WORTH OF AIR POLLUTION IN ITS TREES. THERE IS NO WAY TO ESTIMATE
 HOW MUCH OXYGEN THOSE TREES HAVE RELEASED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.
  THERE IS, HOWEVER, ONE DOWNSIDE TO A TREES FUNCTION, AND HERE-IN LIES THE REASON FOR
 Co2 LEVELS WITHIN THE ATMOSPHERE TO BE OUT OF CONTROL AND FUELING THE GREEN HOUSE GASSES
 THAT CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING; WHEN AN EVERGREEN TREE DIES OR IS DESTROYED, IT IMMEDIATELY
 RELEASES ALL THE Co2 GASSES AND OTHER POLLUTANTS BACK INTO THE ATMOSPHERE !!!!!!
  IT DOESN'T MATTER WHY OR HOW THE TREE DIES. THE SURVIVAL RATE FOR TREES WAS PRETTY GOOD
 MANKIND SHOWED UP. BEFORE MAN, ABOUT THE ONLY THING THAT KILLED TREES WERE LIGHTENING
 RELATED FORREST FIRES AND DIEASE, WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR LITTLE TO NONE DEATHS TO TREES.
  ARE YOU STARTING TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE NOW ? FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS TREES BALANCED
 NATURE BY KEEPING THE AIR RICH AND CLEAN, AND THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS WHY THE CREATOR PUT
 TREES ON PLANET EARTH. HAD MANKIND NOT EVOLVED INTO WHAT HE IS TODAY, TREES WOULD HAVE
 CONTINUED TO BALANCE NATURE BY PROVIDING RICH, CLEAN AIR WITHIN THE ATMOSPHERE FOR
 THOUSANDS OF YEARS IN THE FUTURE.
  IN A NUT SHELL, HERE'S HOW I SEE IT;
     
              THE UNNECESSARY AND WASTEFUL DESTRUCTION OF MILLIONS OF TREES
              AIR POLLUTION FROM THE GROWTH AND MODERNIZATION OF MANKIND IN LAST 200 YEARS
              GREEN HOUSE GASSES FORM FROM POLLUTANTS AND Co2 TO CREATE GLOBAL WARMING
              NATURE FALLS OUT OF BALANCE TRIGGERING ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS WORLD-WIDE

  THIS IS WHERE WE ARE TODAY MARCH, 2007 BUT THIS BY NO MEANS THE END OF THE STORY, AND
 WHAT MANKIND DOES, OR DOES'T DO, WILL DECIDE NOT ONLY HIS FATE, BUT THE FATE OF PLANET
 EARTH AND REST OF IT'S INHABITANTS.
  HOW DO YOU, AS MEMBERS OF MANKIND, THATS RESPONSIBLE FOR UNBALANCING THE NATURAL ORDER
 OF THINGS ESSENTIAL TO OUR PLANETS SURVIVAL, FEEL ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?
  MORE IMPORTANT, JUST WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? I HOPE YOU DON'T CONTINUE TO
 SIT THERE AND DO NOTHING OR TRUST IN YOUR PRESENT LEADERS TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM AUTO-
 MATICALLY AND IMMEDIATELY EVERYTHING WILL OKAY AGAIN CAUSE PEOPLE, THATS JUST NOT GOING
 TO HAPPEN. AND PLEASE DON'T BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT PRAY TO GOD TO SAVE US, AND SIT
 THERE DOING NOTHING WAITING FOR DEVINE INTERVENTION CAUSE HE GAVE US THE BALL ALONG
 TIME AGO, AND HE'S LETTING US PLAY THE GAME ON OUR OWN, WIN OR LOOSE.
  I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I'D LIKE TO WIN THE GAME IF FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN FOR
 THE CHILDREN WHO DESERVE THE RIGHT TO ENJOY THE PLANET EARTH AND ALL IT'S BEAUTY. THE
 THOUGHT OF OUR CHILDREN BREATHING WITH MASKS AND AIR TANKS, WHILE HAVING TO DRINK SOME
 CHEMICAL SUBSUTITUTE FOR WATER WHILE HAVING TO LIVE UNDERGROUND BECAUSE THE WEATHER HAS
 GONE TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL IS NOT THE FUTURE I HAD IN MIND FOR THEM. DID YOU ?

  SO, WHAT CAN WE DO, AND WHERE DO WE START?


 jm2/9/07