Sunday, March 11, 2007

The world's population is growing. Land use is a vital component to Earth's biotic health and sustainability

 
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The graphic is very good (It's source, click on). It shows the increase in Earth's temperature corresponding to carbon dioxide levels, fossil fuels and land use changes. As important, if not more so, is the use of land and the lack of sustainable carbon sinks. The Amazon Rainforest has been a huge carbon sink that cannot be sacrificed for the operations of automobiles in the USA.