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Originally Posted by Shining Arcanine
Have you forgotten that carbon dioxide is to flora as oxygen is to fauna? If there was less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it would harm all forms of flora in some capacity, which is bad for the environment. It is not like carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere once it is put there; hence the carbon cycle.
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The whole point of reducing (not eliminating) fossil fuel consumption is to get CO2
back to
normal and natural amount that had kept the global climate stable for thousands of years, From the industrial revolution till now, human have extracted trapped CO2 in exorbarant amount never seen before, and the rate is still increasing alarmingly now. The earth ecology can regulate itself and CO2 amount that's good for life, floral or fauna, very well, until human started to change things globally and theaten natural regulations -- not just CO2 but destroying plants, which is one mechanism for that CO2 regulation.
The carbon cycle is way of of wack just in the last 100 years, when hundres of thousands of years before now, it was a very stable cycle.