Make A Difference
Lowering green house gas emissions and minimising environmental damage is a goal that every person should now have. Everyday there are opportunities where we can make a decision for the benefit of the environment rather than mindlessly consuming. The human way of life has already made massive changes to the environment. These changes are altering the way our planets cycles and amazing features such as forests, ocean currents and weather patterns function to sustain life; a particularly important factor for us to consider, when we have no alternative place to go.
Drought affected land................................................Salinated land in WA
“Think of the worlds great forests as the planets lungs. We are destroying or removing them at a rate of an acre per second.
What percentage of you lungs do you think
you would be
able to survive with?”
The carbon cycle
One cycle unique to our planet, and integral to making life possible, is the carbon cycle. Carbon is arguably the most important building block of life. Carbon chains make up the wood fibres of trees, the foods we refer to as ‘carbohydrates’ and the oil which is pumped from underground and used on a colossal scale everyday.
Global warming is intimately linked with the carbon cycle. Normally there is a balance between the carbon ‘locked’ in plants and trees, carbon ‘locked’ in fossil fuels underground, carbon absorbed in the ocean and carbon in the air, (CO2). The environmental changes attributed to global warming are the result of humans altering the balance of carbon on the planet.
The only way to take carbon dioxide out of the air for good is through tree and plant growth. http://eo.ucar.edu/kids/green/cycles6.htm
