Carbon tax

http://www.carbontax.org/
http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/12/14/global-carbon-tax/
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/02/a_global_carbon_taxthe_price_m.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/business/16view.html
http://www.globalwarming.org/node/680
http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/definitions/carbon-tax

http://www.saburchill.com/chapters/chap0025.html Here you will see that plants take in oxygen and produce CO2, or carbon dioxide. So, let me think about this...we are going to be taxed on carbon we use or produce, but plants, including trees in the rainforest (the lungs of the planet), food crops, forests in the Sierras, in the Smokies, in YOUR backyard...all plants, including lawns, will be the villains, here, along with industry and autos that we need to drive?

How Plants Breathe

Plants do breathe - they give out carbon dioxide and absorb oxygen from the air that surrounds them. Their tissues respire just as animal tissues do. Plants, however, do not have lungs or a blood stream, so we cannot say that they breathe in the same way as animals.

We also have to be careful when studying green plants because in the light the green parts of these plants carry out photosynthesis as well as respiration.

Photosynthesis does the opposite of respiration. Carbon dioxide is absorbed and oxygen is produced. In order to study respiration in green plants we must block out the light, because although green plants respire all the time they only photosynthesize in the light.

Remember that a green plant respires all the time, day and night. A green plant photosynthesizes only in the presence of sunlight.

All parts of the plant respire, the leaves, the stem, the roots and even the flowers. The parts above the soil get their oxygen directly from the air through pores. The pores in the leaves are called stomata (singular: stoma). The pores in the branches of trees are called lenticels. This is part of an article from Green Living.com.