Carbon is in the news because carbon dioxide is affecting the climate. How is this happening, and what can we do about it? This review of the history, science and economics concludes with a discussion of carbon taxing.
The Carbon Cycle
We consider a location in space to have “permanence” — it continues to exist in time. We visit this location and depart from it, but once we depart we do not think the place is gone — it is simply elsewhere from us until we visit it again.