The levels of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing and have done so for many years. Shouldn’t this have a positive impact on plants etc.?
Maybe not nature including humans, but plants should thrive, right?
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Plants breathe CO2 so that’s good for them. The major downside from plants’ perspective is that extra CO2 traps more heat from the sun, making the world hotter and drier. And that results in more and larger fires. Those aren’t particularly great for nature.
As others have said, there’s also a lot of complexity in the way different elements of the ecosystem interact, so it’s hard to predict many specific individual outcomes.
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