Earth is a carbon based planet. How can...Everything we manufacture is from Earth. IDK, confused!
Lets try some junior HS science. I guess many people slept through that "boring" "how life and the planet work"
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To be honest here, I think I was looking out the window through much of History class!
Carbon. Depends on the compound or "chemical" form the carbon is in. You breath in O2 and breath out
CO2.
Now, Carbon Dioxide is one carbon atom and 2 oxygen atoms bonded together. For life in air to exist and continue continue, plants use the carbon in the
CO2 during the day to grow and then "release"
O2. Lucky us!
Continue to allow humans - who have overpropogated on this planet - and to Decimate
growing forests - we are toast.
Now
Carbon can be reacted into in harmful forms and vice-versa. Its always "there", its just hanging out with a bad crowd or some times with helpful buddies.
A good example of how "hanging out with friends" can "tame a nasty element
is your ordinary ocean sourced or common Table salt.
Salt is
NaCl. A Sodium atom bonded to a Chlorine atom.
Sodium is a soft silvery metal that is unstable, and can heat up and catch fire if place in water or just room air.
Chlorine is green gas that highly toxic to humans.
Now you put them together and - like magic - you get that safe, edible, tasty everyday Table Salt:
NaCl
So you can see how that it is important to the planet for elements to be in a good balance and that they
hang out with good friends - as the Planet has gotten to a "good" place and stabilised over hundred of thousands of years.
But you throw a big bunch of Humans in the mix, disrupting the balance of nature with our chemical synthesis and disregard for natural balance - you might understand how the fragile ecosystem could get thrown in a tizzy.
-Ken