A study of a western Maryland organic garden, a suburban Baltimore park and an inner-city Baltimore park, Lewis Ziska shows the future of global warming in terms of everyday flora.
The answer? Especially in central city areas, more weeds, taller weeds, more weed/trash trees and more pollen.
Why? Anthropogenic carbon dioxide benefits weeds more than crop plants.
Also, Ziska and Andrew MacDougall try to get people to think of “invasive” weeds, especially those on the prairies, in a new light — as passengers in, rather than drivers of, changes in fields.
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