In many ways all these characters are reliving the same year over and over, they never age. Every summer they finish school for the holidays and every autumn they restart the same grade they were in before the summer.
Yet, Amelia is softening her attitude to Spud so they are growing as people.
“Just like humans, trees breathe. But, while humans inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, trees do the opposite: their leaves pull in carbon dioxide, water, and energy from the sun to turn into sugars that feed the tree. This process, known as photosynthesis, emits oxygen.”
That’s so misleading it’s wrong. Trees also respire, that is, take in oxygen and emit carbon dioxide. Unless a tree is adding net mass the net effect of photosynthesis and respiration is zero.
A mature tree could take in a lot of CO2 in a year, but if all that mass becomes leaves that are dropped and rot, fruit that is eaten by animals etc. there’s no net CO2 absorbed.
Of course, in the case of Christmas trees this is somewhat academic because the business that sold the tree will replant a new one and the real question is what’s the best thing to do with yours in the new year, and the answer is that if you’re not burning it you’re probably doing a net good for CO2 removal.
Who told me that was my chemistry teacher. Where are those mature trees putting that carbon? Trees convert CO2 and water to complex hydrocarbons and they become part of the tree’s mass. Any tree that is not gaining mass is not releasing a net amount of oxygen. Mature trees, those that are no longer gaining net mass are no longer releasing net oxygen.The problem with burning rainforests is not that they stop releasing oxygen, but rather by burning them you’re releasing the stored carbon, and you’re damaging an eco system.
In a nation with more than one version of football, you have to have a name to distinguish. Just like we call one version of football, “Rugby”.
We do still use “Soccer”, just not much.