One of the concepts we learned about in Natural Step training was the earth as a closed system with finite resources. We shuffle those resources around as we use them for energy, and a lot of carbon that’s in the ground winds up where it’s not supposed to be. About the only thing that affects us from outside the confines of our atmosphere is solar energy.
Damin sent me a link to The Breathing Earth which is one view of how humans affect things within the closed system of the planet. Check it out and click on various locations to see what’s going on right now.
