The news of the death of plants due to increased carbon dioxide may be greatly exaggerated.

The higher organisms on the intelligent design scale certainly have the *ability* to cope with excess sourcing of energy from hydrocarbons, by building (and maintaining) all kinds of solar energy transforming/concentrating devices.

Ironically, some same desert-climate countries rich in oil may also eventually offer huge outputs of solar-derived energy to the world's ravenous economy.

Even in China, the expanding lake behind that big new dam on the ?Yangtse must certainly contain plant matter in the nutrient rich sewage runoff.