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December 8, 2009
Plants Need More Respect
These green blobs are chloroplasts
- in this instance packed inside the cells of a moss leaf and magnified around 400 times - upon which our collective future depends. Using only energy from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, they produce the oxygen we breathe, control the climate by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and, directly or indirectly via plants and animals, produce all the food we eat. Currently 6.3 billion of us depend on them for our survival. By 2050 9 billion of us will need their services. Maximum respect for plants, then. -- Beyond the Human Eye: The Ultimate Solar Cells
Posted by Vanderleun at December 8, 2009 7:53 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
So, let's get this straight:
This would be the second all-out assault on the world's poor's food supply after the "biofuel" debacle.
Starve them, reduce their numbers, create a new bureaucracy to deal with the resulting crisis, and then blame it on Bush and Cheney.
Posted by: Don Rodrigo at December 8, 2009 12:26 PM