Nature's Carbon Sink: Is It Failing?
Imagine the Earth as a finely crafted clock. The inner workings of the Earth depend on its gears and springs that must fit perfectly within each other for time to smoothly pass. The many systems of our earth, such as carbon sinks, are always working on keeping our atmosphere balanced in order to keep the planet’s climate in harmony. But what happens if this fails? What if a clog falters? As deforestation, ocean saturation, soil degradation, and rising global temperatures disrupt this meticulous and precise mechanism, we find ourselves asking a critical question: is nature’s most important climate defence—the carbon sink—starting to fail? Join me in this blog as we go through the different carbon sinks, their importance, failure, and what we can do about that to assure that time – earth – continues to pass smoothly.
