Quotes About Carbon

Most of the earth's land is not conducive to arable cropping. Only a tiny percentage is good enough for that. Grasslands are literally the lungs of the earth, and restoring them with animals is not only necessary, but it's the most efficacious way to restore water cycles and the carbon cycle. Right now, nothing else comes close to remediating broken ecological systems as quickly or completely as restoring large herds of grazing animals through holistic, or long-term, management.

the consumer dilemma made piercingly clear: our economies are driven by consumption, yet consumption drives our carbon emissions.

hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking COâ'' out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

As with every abstraction, we need to tie the word to actualities to keep it from floating into the euphemistic ether where it can do as much harm as carbon.

Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.

So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

Make no mistake: opposing low-carbon technologies is an implicit vote for a high-carbon energy system, and opponents must recognise this real-world trade-off."[

In other words, we are losing the war on carbon precisely because we are winning the war on poverty.

Plants removing carbon from the air is, in fact, how the earth's vast coal deposits were formed.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment problem?

Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future.

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

The annual output of carbon emissions is 25 billion tonnes and Global Cool's goal is to reduce it by one billion tonnes a year.

si bien el carbón y el diamante son ambos carbono, el carbón es demasiado impuro como para convertirse jamás en diamante, por mucha presión que se le aplique. La ciencia dice que uno empieza siendo carbón y termina siendo carbón. Quizá esa sea la lección vital que había que aprender.

She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.

The middle class tend to be interested in spending money on leisure and entertainment. They leave behind much bigger carbon and digital footprints

Consider carbon, for example. The lifetime of carbon in the combined atmosphere-ocean-biosphere, the time it takes on average before the typical carbon atom is transferred to the sediment, is less than 200,000 years.

Think of the cardiovascular system as a highway system. If roadways are the infrastructure of the city, the conduits that get us from here to there, then our circulatory system is the infrastructure of our bodies. Our blood vessels carry nutrients and oxygen to our cells and then carry carbon dioxide and other by-products away from our cells.

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

Scientists find that plants grow faster as a result of higher carbon dioxide concentrations.

This doesn't necessarily mean that ET will use DNA as its genetic material, or rely on the same 20 amino acids that Earth life does. Other carbon molecules could conceivably get the relevant jobs done, and it might actually be quite surprising if two different life systems came up with the exact same solutions