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How to curb carbon emission and related gases released from the industries and vehicles all over the world in next decade?
Posted on August 8th, 2009Categorized as Earth System Tagged as CO2, global warming, industry, transportation
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Emission of carbon related gases is most responsible for global warming and green house effect. Factories, industrial zones and vehicles emit enormous amount of carbon compounds. Due to rapid deforestation such huge amount of carbon remains in the atmosphere instead of being used by the trees for the process of photosynthesis. Global warming is a result of such uncontrolled carbon emission.
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How can human development and survival be assured if industrial and other processes that contribute to global warming, ozone depletion, forest degradation, etc., are terminated?
Posted on August 27th, 2009Categorized as Earth System, Human Health, Interdisciplinary Tagged as development, environment's impact on mankind, fossil fuel, human survival, industry, natural resources
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This question is vital if earth system science is suggesting ways of surviving the planet. Humankind is part of the planet, and their own survival must be properly integrated into the whole. For example, we must extract and burn fossil fuel if man must live and survive in temperate and polar regions, or if man must move from place to place – requiring some means of transportation. Therefore, as we look at anthropogenic effects on global ecosystem changes, we should not forget to check the effects of environmental stresses to mankind, and how these would influence human interaction with environmental systems. So, can we stop cutting down the forest, burning fossil fuel, extracting uranium and running nuclear reactors, reduce our numbers, say, through birth control, etc., and still survive?
