RE: Renewables set to save Irish consumers €180m, energy report finds30 Jun 2021 13:06
Of course CO2 is good for plant life, in fact early earth’s atmosphere was so rich in it that only plants could survive. Over the millennia this vegetation sequestered the CO2 as coal etc such that other life forms could develop. We have had relatively balanced eco system for a few thousand years which is now becoming unbalanced - increasing human population, and increasing consumption levels being a major factor.
How we live sustainably is a massive question, and I don’t think electric cars or purely sustainable energy are the answers, we need a very sophisticated, multi disciplinary approach, but quoting these guys as the answer it certainly ain’t :
“The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (AKA the Idso family) ranked Number eight on a list of the “Dirty Dozen of Climate Change Denial” compiled by Mother Jones in 2009. [4]
In addition to receiving at least $100,000 from Exxon Mobil (See funding below), Mother Jones reports the Idso family has further ties to the energy industry. In the early 2000s, Craig Idso was the director of environmental science at Peabody Energy, the world’s largest privately owned coal company. Craig and Keith Idso are both tied to the Western Fuels Association. In October, 1999, they assisted in publishing a report for the Greening Earth Society (a group funded and controlled by Western Fuels) titled “Forecasting World Food Supplies: The Impact of the Rising Atmospheric CO2 Concentration,” as Idso announced in a separate CO2 Science article. [4], [5]”