[endthematrix]

Re: Naturally released chemicals

Explain your point. I'm having trouble understanding.

[Restorer]

The article is about how chemicals released from trees and other vegetation are a primary cause of "pollution."

My point is that such naturally produced chemicals cannot logically be classified as "pollution."

Encyclopedia Britannica: "Pollution is the release of harmful environmental contaminants, or the substances so released. Generally the process needs to result from human activity to be regarded as pollution."

[El Gato]

Explain your point. I'm having trouble understanding.

By definition, or the one previous poster is assuming at least, only man can cause pollution. I don't accept that, man is just as much a part of nature as the trees. Still, an undesirable side effect of technology is not the same as something nature does all on her own. (Or mostly, by neglecting the fact that man also affects the growth patterns of the trees).

[Tarpon]

Only man can cause pollution, I thought. Trees can't pollute, can they? So now what. Maybe we need to redefine pollution :-}. One man's pollution is another trees good gas, gets confusing.

If you ask me those damn Eucalyptus trees have got to go. They spew all kinds of stuff and burn like torches.