Carbon dioxide problem?

To the Editor:

We are facing a huge carbon dioxide problem. Just think! Billions of people and animals spewing out tons of carbon dioxide every time they exhale and scientists aren’t even paying attention. What should we do? How about taxing breathing to help solve the problem?

Seriously, what is happening to all this carbon dioxide? It is being absorbed by plants and trees which, by using photosynthesis, are converting it back into oxygen and passing it back into the air. Can you beat this for recycling?

Of course, there are other pollutants beside carbon dioxide, but who is qualified to accurately measure them and provide safeguards if necessary?

It seems that our President, members of Congress and the media think that they are experts in every area of life, but there isn’t a person on earth who is wise enough to be an expert in every area of life. Why not parcel out parts of this problem to those working right in the area and are the real experts?

But back to recycling, consider the food cycle. People and some animals eat vegetation and fruit from the trees, to get the energy they need day by day, then eliminate the waste. What happens to this waste?

It is used as a nutrient for plants and trees. (How well I remember that as a teenager, with my boots on, I went down to our barn cellar to shovel the manure into a spreader to be scattered over the fields just for that purpose.) And so vegetation and fruit of the trees have food for us again.

And there is the recycling of water. It doesn’t matter where you start. Rain falls on mountains and plains. Water flows into small brooks, then larger and larger rivers and finally into the seas and oceans. Moisture from these sources evaporates into the air into the clouds and travels back over the land for more rain.

These events have been happening for thousands of years. You may say much longer. Can anyone logically deny the existence of our great Creator?

Fred Colby

New Gloucester