Environment: How can we save it???

Sure, science esp. biotechnology can play important role to control, to slow down Global Warming. “Biotechnology can change the nature of the problem . . . if it can change the economics of a major part of the global energy system, for example, commercial biomass; carbon capture; and hydrogen, fuel cells, and transportation technologies.” (Jae Edmonds) Global warming has become a major problem. It is caused when more solar energy is trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere than can escape into space. Carbon dioxide and methane are the two compounds causing the problem. A high quantity of those compounds is coming from power plants and transportation. The rise of temperatures threatens many dangerous consequences, such as drought, disease, floods, lost ecosystems, sweltering heat, and rising seas. Temperatures have increased by about one degree Fahrenheit over the last century and should rise another three to nine degrees by the end of this century. Heat waves, droughts, and wildfires will occur more often and with much more intensity. Disease carrying mosquitoes will expand their range and species will become extinct. The temperature changes are becoming drastic. Genetically engineering plants play a role in slowing down global warming. In Canada, enhanced fruit trees kill insects on contact, without the use of pesticide sprays. In Israel, poplar trees have been made to grow so fast that they could eliminate a need to log old growth forests, while gobbling enough carbon dioxide to help slow global warming. In North Carolina and Minnesota, trees under experimentation which contain novel woody fibers can be processed into pulp without the tons of toxic chemicals that now poison rivers around paper mills. These kinds of inventions are paving the way to make biotechnology a plausible choice to help slow down global warming.