eli5: If plants and trees thrive on Carbon dioxide, and humans are producing more carbon dioxide, does that mean vegetation is benefiting from greenhouse gases? If not, how come?
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The short answer to your question is “yes”. Plants do benefit from elevated CO2 levels. And we’ve got a long way to go before those levels are remotely harmful to humans.
Historic CO2 levels have been far higher than they are now as well as far lower. It is true that humans can increase the rate at which CO2 is released. But it’s not the global killer that it is normally portrayed.
People should be much more worried about toxic pollution than the levels of CO2 and relatively mild changes in weather that happen over many years.
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