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Photosynthetic Pets (Nature and Annoyance)

My “dream for the future” when I was in middle school was to “develop plants that move.”
What I was most interested in was “global warming” in general. When I hear that what promotes global warming the most is cow burp, I've been thinking about “development of food (plants) that are difficult to burp,” and if I learn that it is green (plants) that absorb CO2 emitted by living things (animals), “development of green (plant) creatures (animals) that can go anywhere.”
The CO2 we emit is absorbed by our own pets (moving plants) and oxygen is supplied. In such a world, I wanted to create a society where people can live in a way that is kind to the earth.
So, when I was in middle school and high school, I wanted to go to the Faculty of Agriculture! I want to contribute to creating a new environment! I kept thinking, but luckily or unlucky, for some reason I passed the recommended entrance exam application form that I couldn't decline if I passed it, and it came to an end in the form that I had no choice but to change my long-standing dream.
However, studying medicine was also fun, probably because of my memories of being affected by the disaster (Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake) when I was in my first year of high school, so I decided to take a new path.
Then, while living a different way of life “now,” I accidentally thought that “moving plants” were necessary again, and I began to remember my dreams in the past.
It started because it was hit by the heavy rain disaster in western Japan. Of course, “global warming” is fundamentally in the background, but this time, from the background where many precious lives were lost due to “landslides due to heavy rain,” I thought that if mountains and forest trees that cannot be touched by humans moved on their own and worked to prevent sediment disasters, the number of people who died could have decreased slightly.
However, it is also true that humans left nature and the earth unattended until this happened and did not work out countermeasures.
I live near Arima Onsen. It's also a summer resort. Recently, I've been putting a digital thermometer in my room, and the temperature in my room is “wow!!!” in winter and summer It turns out that there is a temperature difference as much as I thought. (You can feel it on your skin if it's clearly different from the old days).
This year's intense heat, intense heat. The temperature in the coolest room at the northern end has reached 35 degrees, hasn't it? Last winter, even though it was inside my room, the temperature was below freezing.
Every day I'm keenly aware of why I haven't properly thought about “global warming” even more.
Aren't the monks also getting heatstroke in the temple?
How do you view global warming?

4 Zen Responses

I definitely feel the heat and cold

There are various opinions about global warming. There is also talk that global warming is not occurring when viewed on a global scale in the first place; rather, the Earth's temperature is dropping year by year. There are also various opinions about the relationship between the amount of carbon dioxide and global warming. It seems that it is not easy to say that planting plants that plant trees will reduce carbon dioxide. I've also heard stories about cutting off only a part of it, but carbon is released as trees die and decay, so it becomes carbon dioxide.

The ambition to make the Earth better is amazing, and I would like you to do research. On the other hand, it is also important to live a way of life where you are not at the mercy of information, myself included. I think science and Buddhism are similar. Examine the facts and come up with answers. They look calmly at facts rather than ways of thinking. They don't bring human feelings into it, don't think about profit or the complexion of those around them, and if the facts are proven, that's fine.

I can't express my opinion until I actually do my own research, but Japanese people feel this heat and cold. I want experts to somehow find a way to overcome it with strength.

It also has dynamism

I read it.
I think it is probably true that the global environment has clearly changed rapidly over the past few decades.
I think that is influenced by various thoughts and actions made by humans.
After all, nature, the environment, and the earth are important, so I think it is necessary for everyone to think and act on how to properly collect and verify data and preserve them as our own.
I think it's great that you aspire to be that way.

Please be careful, accurate, and actively do what you need to do!

I also want to do it while thinking carefully about what I can do now.

Please take a look at it in the long run again!

That's because the Earth also has an ice age. There will also be dynamism far beyond our imagination.

I want to install an air conditioner in the main hall soon...

I used to be the type to think and do various activities, but I graduated.

Regarding global warming, an environmental theory professor at the university said, “Various causes of global warming have been said, but there are still no scientifically confirmed conclusions. Rather than the movement to take serious measures, the movement that has become a profitable business if it is touted as a global warming countermeasure is stronger. There is also a theory that the sun's activity is simply becoming more active, but it's not clear whether it's man-made or natural.” I thought that was narcissistic when you said that.

Regarding nuclear power plants, “It is said that they are cheap and cheap, but when it comes to talking about removal costs, the public and private sectors all shut up. I know it's actually not cheap, but they're spreading it by saying it's cheap. That's insane.” That's what you said.

Now I understand that solar power generation is surprisingly not necessarily eco-friendly, and I feel that he was a visionary professor when looking at the results of the nuclear accident.

It's an amateur thought, but since volcanic activity has become so active in the Pacific Rim, I don't even think it's going to be hot. The imminent risk of an earthquake means that a load is being placed on the plate, so I also feel that energy is likely to turn into heat. No, I don't know.

If trees are limited to Japan, now is a time when “they should be cut down and managed appropriately” rather than when they are planted. Please look up the forestry problems faced by the region. This is also deeply related to landslides. If you are going to develop it, I would like you to develop a “mass production system for seedlings other than cedar.” This will be a technology that will change Japan.

Well, if you leave science stuff like that to smart people, it's probably the job of a humanities monk to destroy Japanese salaryman guts and change the state of society and the way the city is. Wearing a long-sleeved long pants suit to use the air conditioner is now polluting, isn't it? Conversely, the fact that the air conditioner doesn't work in such a way is also moralizing. It's good to sleep during the daytime, too. In fact, people in hot regions have been doing that for a long time. Even in Japan, midsummer farmers have been doing that for a long time. It's been a long time since global warming occurred.

Suppressing change or reverting back to the past is one way, but ironically, it is something that people with the ability to change society and the world work on.
As a grassroots effort, I think it's about adapting. Actually, it also leads to going back to the old days.

A machine that absorbs carbon dioxide to make oxygen and starch

Hello.
I would like to express my sympathy to those affected by the recent floods.
Heatstroke is fine. I wear ice cream under my armpits to remove water and salt.

I also wanted to invent a “photosynthetic machine.”
It absorbs carbon dioxide, releases oxygen, and makes starch. I thought it would be a countermeasure against excessive carbon dioxide, and it would also be good for food shortages.
But if you think about it carefully, it's just a matter of growing lots of plants without making such a machine.

It's called “global warming,” but until just 30 years ago, it was said that “the ice age is about to come.” It seems like winter was cold in the 1980s. At that time, carbon dioxide should have already been rampant on a global scale, but it was cold. Is it true that carbon dioxide is warming the Earth? I think so. Carbon dioxide may also have some effect, but I wonder if the activity of the Sun and Earth as a star is also affected? I also feel like carbon dioxide is being treated too much as a bad person.

Don't be misled by too much information. I think it's important to do thorough research, think with your own head, and do what you can.

Thank you so much. I'll add it. When I say “look up information carefully,” I mean that I value opinions contrary to my own, that is, opinions that “the cause of global warming cannot be said to be greenhouse gases” or “we are actually heading towards an ice age,” and why.