NEW YORK, USA -- Champions of the Kyoto Convention and Protocol at the United Nation's building in New York have come under recent fire for the detrimental effects of the international treaty. Ironically, the Kyoto Treaty was supposed to help the environment, but recent scientific studies have shown that the treaty is actually lowering levels of carbon dioxide, a crucial resource for plant life.

Nathaniel Greene, of the Greene Center for Environmental Policy notes that with the decline in carbon dioxide, plants are literally suffocating to death. "We expected Kyoto to help the environment, but if you look at levels of carbon dioxide, they are actually going down, instead of up. Plants need carbon dioxide to live, and Kyoto is cruelly starving them of that precious life-giving resource," claimed Greene

Rebecca Bacon of PETA (Plants want Ethical Treatment Also) is saddened by the animal-centric environmental movements. "Animals get all the attention," laments Bacon. "With the increase in veganism, and the so called 'conservationist' movement, that hopes to fight carbon dioxide, plants are quickly becoming endangered."

Bacon was able to back up her statements with scientific data. "The number of vegetarians increased 7% last year alone. Combine that with the health craze, and people trading in their hamburgers for veggie-burgers and salads, and you have a recipe for disaster." According to Bacon, plant life has decreased 10% over the past 5 years, and with creatures like the massive Blue Whale gobbling up plant plankton by the ton, it may already be too late. "Those whales devour tons of plant plankton, and the only thing they give back to the environment is whale sized poop. We used to use them for perfume, but now even that is taboo."

Kyoto has apparently made the problem worse. Nathaniel Greene notes that plants systems, which rely on only four basic needs, are very fragile. "Plants only need sunlight, nutrients (like from the soil), water, and carbon dioxide. If you tried blocking out the sun, or polluting the soil or water, people would complain. Why then, aren't they complaining when policies like Kyoto deny them of carbon dioxide?"

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