Beschreibung:
Greenhouse Planet reveals the stakes of increased carbon dioxide for plants, people, and ecosystems¿from crop yields to seasonal allergies and from wildfires to biodiversity. The veteran plant biologist Lewis H. Ziska confronts the claim that ¿CO2 is plant food,¿ showing why it is deeply misleading.
PrefacePart I. A Green Blindness1. Plants Are Important: The Part About Food2. Plants Are Important: The Part About Drugs3. Plants Are Important: The Part About Religion4. Plants Are Important: The Part About Weeds5. Plants Are Important: The Part About Art¿and AllergiesPart II. Plants and Magic6. Science Is Fundamental7. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Good8. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Bad9. The OMGPart III. CO2 Is Plant Food. Now What?10. More Questions Than Answers11. The Ten-Ton T. Rex in the Hall Closet12. Wait, What?Part IV. Politics and Pleas13. Cracks in the System14. Science Says15. CO2 Is Plant Food: The Last Bit16. A Personal NoteAfterword and ThanksNotesIndex