The Negative Effects Of Carbon And Its Impact On Earth

Carbon is one of the most essential elements in life. Carbon makes up the building block of all living things including proteins, lipids, nucleic acid and carbohydrates. Carbon also can be found abundantly distributed in a nonliving environment, in the atmosphere as Carbon Dioxide (CO2), natural gas, dead organic matter and coal in the ground. Carbon is cycled and maintained a stable concentration in the through the earth’s lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, antrosphere and biosphere undergoing varies of reactions. As they are linked together, changes in any carbon reservoirs directly and indirectly could bring changes in the others. The changes or excess emissions of Carbon could give effects to the earth and its’s ecosystem.
THE CAUSES
Cars, trains, trucks, lorries, airplanes, ships, all of these are created to assist in human daily life as well as aided in running the rapid economic development of nowadays. Unfortunately, this accommodation bring along a negative impact to the environment as transport is one of the major contributor to the excess carbon emission in the atmosphere. With the growing of numbers of vehicles the dependency of people to the petroleum and fossil fuel increases. This not only gives threat to the ecosystem of the earth but also lead to the depletion of source of carbon as manufacturing of cars required a tremendous amount of energy comes from the burning of fossil fuel. Not to missed that, crude oil production is also likely to end as there is a dramatic increases of fuel demand from the petrol stations. Insufficient of public transport as well as the reluctant of people to practice the environment-friendly practice, car pooling triggered the amount of global CO2 emissions to go
As most of carbon constitutes in the living plants, the activity of clearance the tropical forest heavily influenced the carbon cycle. Firstly, due to removal of plants which undergo photosynthesis by capturing the carbon dioxide, causes the carbon dioxide to be freely in the environment without being absorbed by the plants. Even if another plants replanted, there is still changes in the carbon cycle due to their difference in size and the difference in amount of carbon absorbed. Secondly, deforestation causes the soil to be eroded, leading to the carbon stored in the soil taken into the rivers. As the carbon cycle disrupted, the high temperature of the air triggered the increases in soil decomposition which in turn releasing more carbon dioxide to the