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The task is to understand how human activities at a dangerous speed is destroying the systems Gaia has established of storing away carbon to lower the temperature on Earth, and understand that there are non-destructive energy alternatives.
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<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">One of the reasons for the current building up of carbon in the atmosphere is that the natural systems, which can normally handle and stow away such extra carbon are being destroyed. Carbon levels in nature have always fluctuated. Massive volcano outbursts have often added carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but over the next years land vegetation, oceans and soils would accumulate the extra carbon and levels would soon be back to the normal level again.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">This is possible when the natural systems are healthy and as long as the extra carbon is not overwhelming.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Conditions nowadays are neither of the two. The amounts of extra carbon pumped into the atmosphere are staggering. Humans have over the last one and a half century burned maybe one third of the easily accessible fossil fuels - coal, gas and oil. This corresponds to releasing to the atmosphere an amount of carbon which it took nature maybe 100 million years to accumulate (fossil fuels formed when organic matter was compressed at high temperatures over long periods in the Earth's crust).</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The part about sound natural systems is just as bad. The healthy vegetation that should be able to absorb extra carbon is in a serious crisis itself. Most of our planet's forests have over the centuries been cleared for agricultural areas, and most of our agricultural systems are of a kind that depletes the soil more and more. Amounts of humus, which is the long-term carbon storage compound in the soil, are decreasing in the huge monoculture fields of agribusiness, so less and less carbon is stored there. In no way can such systems take up the extra carbon our consumer society is spitting out.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Oceans could then do the job. At least they are much more difficult for humans to destroy because they are so huge. But in spite of this, scientists can measure that they take up less and less atmospheric carbon, even though the amount to take from increases. </span></p> So, there is no way out. We will need to find carbon neutral energy production methods and agricultural systems that build up a carbon rich soil.
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<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">This task is scheduled for 3 hours.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">1. Read the text: “Weather Makers” chapter 1, by Tim Flannery.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">2. Make a poster listing ten facts about how burning fossil fuels is endangering humans and the natural balances.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">3. Discuss your poster with fellow teammates.</span></p> 4. Send your poster and a note about the discussion to your teacher.<br /> <br /> Files:<br /> F1. Tim Flannery: Weather Makers, Ch. 1
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