News: "Global greening, the other 'greenhouse effect', is underway"

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Well, if you had a very bad conscience about pollution and everything. I've got good news for you! (Literally)

Destroying our planet with the greenhouse gases, we also push the growth of plants in dry areas! Yes, baby! So if someone ever asks you why you don't stop contaminating, the perfect excuse is to say: "I'm doing it for the plants."

But why that? Well, you know that the main greenhouse gas is CO₂, carbon dioxide. And if you listened in school (I know that's difficult, especially before you get to the real stuff, Batxillerat...) and still remember it (which can be even more difficult), then you should also know that plants, which obtain their energy doing the photosynthesis, capture CO₂  and emit oxygen, that is, O₂ . 

It sounds a little stupid, but actually, the carbon dioxide we emit is absorbed by the plants. And since they need it to live... Yep, we are promoting plant growth.

Another reason why it helps the plants to grow is the climate change itself the emission of carbon dioxide provokes. Higher temperatures in normally cold zones and higher humidity (and thus more "tropical" conditions in warm zones) also accelerate the reproduction of plants.

Obviously, that doesn't mean that we can go around ejecting carbon dioxide like.. like... like humans, but it's another hint of understanding the consequences of pollution like global warming.

And it's got a soothing effect to know that while we're killing so many species, at least we give a chance to live to so many sweet plants...