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