CO2 myth busted: Why we need more carbon dioxide to grow food and forests

CO2 myth busted: Why we need more carbon dioxide to grow food and forests


(NaturalNews) If you talk to the global warming crowd, carbon dioxide --
CO2 -- is the enemy of mankind. Any and all creation of CO2 is bad for
the planet, we're told, and its production must be strictly limited in
order to save the world.

But what if that wasn't true? What if CO2 were actually a planet-saving nutrient that could multiply food production rates and feed the world more nutritious, healthy plants?

CO2 is a vital nutrient for food crops

As
it turns out, CO2 is desperately needed by food crops, and right now
there is a severe shortage of CO2 on the planet compared to what would
be optimum for plants. Greenhouse operators are actually buying carbon dioxide and injecting it into their greenhouses in order to maximize plant growth.

The science on this is irrefutable. As just one example, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food says:

CO2
increases productivity through improved plant growth and vigour. Some
ways in which productivity is increased by CO2 include earlier
flowering, higher fruit yields, reduced bud abortion in roses, improved
stem strength and flower size. Growers should regard CO2 as a nutrient.

If you want to understand why CO2 is an essential nutrient for food crop growth, check out this informative slide show.
It explains that "CO2 may be repidly depleted during crop production"
daylight hours, because the plants pull all the CO2 out of the air and
use it in photosynthesis.

The CO2 found in modern-day atmosphere is 340ppm. But food crops would grow far faster if the concentration of CO2
were closer to 1000ppm, or roughly 300% higher than current levels. In
fact, most greenhouse plant production causes a "CO2 depletion" to
happen, shutting down photosynthesis and limiting food production. As
the "Carbon Dioxide in Greenhouses" fact sheet explains:

Ambient
CO2 level in outside air is about 340 ppm by volume. All plants grow
well at this level but as CO2 levels are raised by 1,000 ppm
photosynthesis increases proportionately resulting in more sugars and
carbohydrates available for plant growth. Any actively growing crop in a
tightly clad greenhouse with little or no ventilation can readily
reduce the CO2 level during the day to as low as 200 ppm.

Thus, greenhouse plants are "running out" of CO2. They are starving for it. And when you add it to food crops, you get higher yields, improved taste, shorter flowering times, enhanced pest resistance and other benefits.

Why we should pump carbon dioxide into greenhouses

This
brings up an obvious answer for what to do with all the CO2 produced by
power plants, office buildings and even fitness centers where people
exhale vast quantities of CO2. The answer is to build adjacent greenhouses and pump the CO2 into the greenhouses.

Every
coal-fired power plant, in other words, should have a vast array of
greenhouses surrounding it. Most of what you see emitted from power
plant smokestacks is water vapor and CO2, both essential nutrients for rapid growth of food crops. By diverting carbon dioxide and water into greenhouses, the problem of emissions is instantly solved because the plants update the CO2 and use it for photosynthesis,
thus "sequestering" the CO2 while rapidly growing food crops. It also
happens to produce oxygen as a "waste product" which can be released
into the atmosphere, (slightly) upping the oxygen level of the air we
breathe.

This is a brilliant solution because humans want to live
on a world with low CO2 that supports frozen ice caps in order to keep
ocean water levels low, but they want to eat a volume of food that
requires high CO2 for production. The answer is to concentrate CO2 into greenhouses where food production is multiplied by CO2 nutrition.

I'll
bet you've never heard Al Gore talk about CO2 as "nutrition." He
declares it a pollutant and wants to tax you for producing it. But CO2
is actually a key nutritive gas for food crops. Without carbon dioxide, we would all have starved to death by now.

Shutting down power plants to destroy America's power infrastructure

The U.S. government's solution to power plant emissions, however, is to just shut down coal-fired power plants, causing rolling blackouts across the USA, especially during hot summer days. The EPA has forced hundreds of power plants to shut down
across the USA, achieving a loss of power infrastructure that vastly
exceeds what would even be possible by an enemy invasion of
high-altitude warplanes dropping bombs.

The EPA, under the excuse
of "saving the planet," is destroying America's power infrastructure
and leading our nation into a third-world scenario where power
availability is dicey and unsustained. It seems to be just one part of
the overall plan to gut America's economy, offshore millions of jobs,
put everybody on welfare and destroy small businesses.

But what if we harnessed coal-fired power plants
instead of shutting them down? What if we used them as "CO2 generators"
that fed CO2 into vast greenhouse operations that produced organic,
high-growth foods that could feed the nation? Coal-fired power plants
can produce both electricity and food nutrition at the same time.

Better yet, if you combine this concept with aquaponics,
you get simultaneous production of plants and fish while using no soil,
no GMOs and one-tenth the water of conventional agriculture.

See,
the solutions to all our problems already exist. The only reason we are
suffering as a nation is because political puppets try to brainwash us
into believing complete falsehoods like, "carbon
dioxide is a dangerous pollutant" or "the people don't need healthy
foods; they need medications and vaccines." When societies believe
falsehoods, they crumble and collapse.

That's where America is
headed, of course. And it's all being accelerated by deceptive
bureaucrats who want to convince you that growing real food is bad and
we should all be punished for exhaling carbon dioxide, an essential
nutrient for food crops. Carbon dioxide is not the enemy it's been made
out to be. It's actually plant nutrition that helps regrow rainforests, food crops and wetlands. In fact, higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere would make the planet more lush and abundant in terms of plant life, forests, trees and food crops.


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