We can still save the planet
Considering the rate at which we are decimating the lungs of this planet through deforestation and the resultant annihilation of entire ecosystems, and the rate at which we are pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, it seems humanity is actually bent on self destruction.
Add to this the US sabotage of world initiatives to reduce emissions and foster a greener approach, almost unanimously agreed to at the Paris conference, aside from a particular US political party and it becomes clear that we are not only fighting a losing battle but we have extremely powerful opponents preventing progress.
While we have had almost negligible success in efforts to overt the impending disaster, if we look at new technologies which will alleviate the pressure by tuning the offending substance into a fuel source, we might just have a chance at bypassing the need for unanimity among groups which don't seem to have humanity's interest sufficiently prioritised.
A new discovery
A newly discovered process by which CO2 is converted into ethanol, is an excellent short term solution if we can get it moving fast enough.
This new process was discovered accidentally and promises to turn our most prolific and dangerous(for the planet) waste into fuel.
If this ethanol from CO2 process can be adequately funded and fast tracked, we who facilitate such expedition would literally be saviours of the world.
Those who have means, those who have power and those who have influence should all take heed and initiative and make it happen and the rest of us should sustain.
Amazing Fuel from Waste successes already in use TED Talk - Amy Smith of MIT
The idea of turning waste into fuel is of course not new and we have had excellent ideas come from MIT's Amy Smith of D-Lab, who has managed to turn corn cobs into a fuel source for rural Africa in Ghana, sugar cane Bagasse into a low emissions, high output fuel source in Haiti and a similar product from agricultural waste in India.
Africa - Biomass Fuel from Corn Cobs
Canecoal - from D-Lab at MIT and Haiti
Sources to be found in embedded links
CO2 is not a pollution. It is also not a green house gas.
Al Gore proved this in his contemptible show, "Inconvenient truth".
If you actually get the data that Al Gore shows ("Don't they look like they go together") and actually put them together, you will see that temperature leads CO2. CO2 has no effect on temperature, it is temperature which effects CO2. It is sun spots that actually effect the temperature.
Of the producers of CO2, humans are a real small percentage. One volcano eruption produces more CO2 than all of the people on the planet.
CO2 is also essential for growing plants. In green houses, they often inject CO2 for better/faster growth.
CO2 is not a dangerous thing that needs to be eliminated. It is an essential thing, and it may be important that we produce more of it, for a greener planet.
The worst part of this war on CO2 (its all about taxes) is that it removes focus from the real environmental toxins we are creating.
Thank you for a very poignant addition. I expect some debate may ensue :)
My concern lies more in the destruction of species, habitat, ecosystems and the planet's breathing apparatus.
Ethanol from CO2 seems like a great idea, whatever the impact of CO2 on global warming.
Focus correction is of course of utmost import and I hope you have some evidence to present:)
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