Category — green house gases

The production of green house gas emissions is a natural part of the processes of planet earth. Gases that absorb heat have always been a part of our atmosphere and everything that breathes air gives off carbon dioxide as a by product. Until recently, the relationship between people and animals – which produce greenhouse gases, and plants – which consume greenhouse gases, has been a balanced one. The problem is that human beings have increased the amount of greenhouse gases that they are producing, while cutting down huge portions of forest.

Then things changed. As human technology advanced, we began to produce more food-that means more livestock. Numbers of livestock grew like they never had before, because human beings were incubating them in an unnatural environment. There were more cows than a natural ecosystem would support. Eventually, because of the mass availability of food and other necessities, human beings began to flourish like never before. Natural green house gas emissions grew and began to slowly alter the climate system. But the greenhouse effect didn’t really begin thinking about putting its mark on the world until we became an industrial society.

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