Vox has an issue with the color of Earth changing. No, really!
Maybe you've heard: Earth, our planet, is not doing great. Tropical forests are getting cut down. Parking lots are replacing bird-filled grasslands. Climate change is fueling forest-razing wildfires. On the whole, natural, plant-filled habitats, seem to be disappearing.
Despite this destruction, scientists keep coming to an odd conclusion: The Earth is growing greener. Not green in the metaphorical "sustainable" sense, but in the literal color green.
In the last four decades, the extent of green vegetation — i.e., the amount of leaves in a given area — has substantially increased across the planet, according to a number of recent scientific studies based on satellite data. There's actually more green space today, not less. And this "global greening" phenomenon is not just occurring on land. Large parts of the oceans are getting greener, too, research shows. Our blue planet, it seems, is increasingly a green planet.
A lot of the human activities the author points to are miniscule compared to the growth occurring and it is obviously due to abundant amounts of carbon dioxide ending up in the atmosphere enabling plants to grow. This, in turn, means more abundant amounts of plants to cultivate for humans to eat including food for animals used for human consumption.
The author is resorting to the usual climate doom-and-gloom clap trap, trying to create panic probably either for clicks or to really send Vox's readers into a panic. This likely due to the left continuing to think that carbon dioxide is a pollutant which is a point they have push as far back as the early part of the century. The notion that it is got more momentum after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in the case Massachusetts vs. EPA that CO2 is a pollutant and the EPA was able to regulate it. The court reversed itself 15 years later.
This article's author, Benji Jones, is ultimately telling their readers not to believe their eyes and continue to have faith in the cause.
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