Being Green - 24 February 2017
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Humankind has benefited immensely from the natural abundance of biodiversity in the world.
And evolved and adapted through technology to the point where we now control the environment, or think we do. No other species has changed and transformed nature – we call it agriculture and industrialization. And now we face some consequences, like water scarcity close to home here – and the looming crisis of climate change and our controversial contribution to it, world wide. But will we be able to overcome yet another challenge, by doing what we’ve always done – engineering? For instance, billions of tonnes of carbon are tied up in the carbonate sediments in the oceans.
Limestone it takes thousands or millions of years to trap and transform carbon in the rocks – but hey, why not imitate nature? It’s worked before.
And evolved and adapted through technology to the point where we now control the environment, or think we do. No other species has changed and transformed nature – we call it agriculture and industrialization. And now we face some consequences, like water scarcity close to home here – and the looming crisis of climate change and our controversial contribution to it, world wide. But will we be able to overcome yet another challenge, by doing what we’ve always done – engineering? For instance, billions of tonnes of carbon are tied up in the carbonate sediments in the oceans.
Limestone it takes thousands or millions of years to trap and transform carbon in the rocks – but hey, why not imitate nature? It’s worked before.
