Carbon footprint

The carbon footprint  hoax is so large it nearly defies explaining. How do you prove to others you are not a bank robber? Once the accusation is made over and over again, some people began to believe it.

Nearly all life from moss to sperm whales are carbon based. Dandruff contains carbon. Belches and flatulence contain carbon.  Every breath you exhale releases carbon. Plants, from trees to a blade of grass, pull carbon from the air. God designed this carbon cycle. In the mid latitudes between the tropic and the polar regions, the plant life has a die back period where the leafy material decomposes releasing carbon.

Carbon in gaseous form is adventurist and seldom maintains a stable relationship. Carbon is a neutralizing substance and will flitter from compound to compound. Think of carbon as a womanizer constantly breaking up relationships to unite with a new target. In the chemical world much like the dating world those cast off relations eventually bind with someone else. Being adventurist, carbon like a womanizer doesn't go off and have a pity party with other unattached womanizers. They locate a new target and break up that relationship.

Gaseous carbon doesn't settle down until it combines in molecular form with at least four other carbons (get the image of a womanizer out of your mind). In this form it becomes a liquid or solid and drops out of the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is quite willing to swap out elements when it comes in contact with a hydrocarbon molecule like a dead skin cell or partially expended fuel molecule.

So yes, increased population and industrial activity will produce more carbon emissions. It also produces more hydrocarbon emissions desiring the simple carbon emissions. You should not be amazed that God's carbon cycle stays in balance.