I thought I left this comment aleady.. but it must have gotten lost.
Trees thrive in climates where they can act as "filters".
Spaces filled with leafy vegetation filter pollution and trap tiny particles of dirt and soot: Street trees can reduce airborne particulates from car and bus exhaust. Large groves of trees may have an even more profound green-lung effect for cities, cleansing the air of dangerous chemicals. In Chicago, scientists found that each year trees removed some 234 tons (212 metric tons) of particulates, 98 tons (89 metric tons) of nitrogen dioxide, 93 tons (84 metric tons) of sulfur dioxide, and 17 tons (15 metric tons) of carbon monoxide.
Now take this a step further. Coal is made up of compressed vegitation, mostly from the "Carboniferous" period when vegitation biomass was at it's peak on the planet (along with green house gases - albeit not nearly as high as they are today). So what do you think happens when we burn that coal (like we do in our power plants). For millions of years the earth has trapped these toxins and gases in a system that entombs it into the earth... we dig it up and burn it - releasing it all back into the atmosphere again.
Go take all of the vacume bags from not just from what you've vacumed in your life - but from what everyone has ever vacumed, and start emptying them around your house...
How could something so beautiful be so near to the municipal dump?
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hmmm, that tree looks familiar
I thought I left this comment aleady.. but it must have gotten lost.
Trees thrive in climates where they can act as "filters".
Spaces filled with leafy vegetation filter pollution and trap tiny particles of dirt and soot: Street trees can reduce airborne particulates from car and bus exhaust. Large groves of trees may have an even more profound green-lung effect for cities, cleansing the air of dangerous chemicals. In Chicago, scientists found that each year trees removed some 234 tons (212 metric tons) of particulates, 98 tons (89 metric tons) of nitrogen dioxide, 93 tons (84 metric tons) of sulfur dioxide, and 17 tons (15 metric tons) of carbon monoxide.
Now take this a step further. Coal is made up of compressed vegitation, mostly from the "Carboniferous" period when vegitation biomass was at it's peak on the planet (along with green house gases - albeit not nearly as high as they are today). So what do you think happens when we burn that coal (like we do in our power plants). For millions of years the earth has trapped these toxins and gases in a system that entombs it into the earth... we dig it up and burn it - releasing it all back into the atmosphere again.
Go take all of the vacume bags from not just from what you've vacumed in your life - but from what everyone has ever vacumed, and start emptying them around your house...
Pretty grim picture no?
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