She preferred the lushness of the tropics. She had her point. The tropical rain forests are the source of an incredible diversity of botanical and animal life. We also know that they harbor many medicines, some of which may be critical to our survival. It is not a coincidence that as we destroy the rain forests, our own resiliency is impacted.
All life is interrelated.
As the oxygen supply diminishes, we must expect a deterioration of health. We know from the work of two-time Nobel laureate, Otto Warburg, that cancer cells are anaerobic, that they thrive when there is a deprivation of oxygen, that they die when exposed to oxygen. This has been the basis of many alternative cancer treatments. We know, too, that oxygen is essential to life and vitality, that there is malaise and despair when it is lacking. We need plants to perform the photosynthesis necessary to life, and we need them for medicine.