LETTING NATURE COOL
Sep 23, 2018
3 minutes
This planet we live on has ways of regulating its climate. A major one is through weathering, which removes carbon from the ground surface and washes it to the ocean, where it is locked away in natural deposits of limestone. Another way is through vegetation, which absorbs carbon from the atmosphere; this works to a shorter-term extent as, once the vegetation dies and rots, it will again release most of its carbon.
However nature does the job, the extent to which humans populate the surface of the Earth and transform it according to their wills and needs affects how well
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