Carbon dioxide - Carbon dioxide is the only volcanic gas that fits the description. The sulfur gases have bad odors; water vapor could kill only if it were scalding hot; and carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas, but it would change to carbon dioxide in open spaces. In the case above, carbon dioxide seeping upward from a magma chamber had displaced oxygen in the soil around the tree roots and killed the trees (pg 134)
1- Denis Diderot was a French Enlightenment philosopher who co-founded and edited an universal encyclopedia titled Encyclopédie.
L'Encyclopédie is an encyclopedia published between 1751 and 1772 in France under the direction of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. Its purpose was to gather and disseminate in clear and accessible text, the fruits of knowledge accumulated until then under the criticism and sieve of reason. In addition, it exposes the secularist, pragmatic, materialist and bourgeois ideology of the Enlightenment. It contains 72,000 articles of more than 140 collaborators, among them Voltaire, Rousseau or Turgot, to name a few.
It is considered one of the greatest works of the eighteenth century, not only for being the first French encyclopedia, but also for containing the synthesis of the main knowledge of the time, in a considerable editorial effort for its time.
2- Voltaire was a French writer, historian, philosopher and lawyer, who belonged to Freemasonry and figures as one of the main representatives of the Enlightenment, a period that emphasized the power of human reason, science and respect for humanity. In 1759 he published Candide, a short novel about the ills of society that used humor and irony.
<span>It has been from Latin America that there has been a dramatic increase in immigration to the United States since 1965. This has been in part due to better job opportunities in the US. </span>
