Humans have engineered climate change by manipulating the environment.
Humans have engineered climate change by manipulating the environment. There’s a hope that we may also be able to mitigate this, predominantly through reducing emissions, but in some cases by leveraging some of these same natural processes, a plan called Nature-based Climate Solutions (NbCS).
A majority of the climate-altering carbon dioxide humans release into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels gets drawn into Earth’s oceans and landscapes through natural processes such as photosynthesis, where plants turn atmospheric carbon dioxide into biomass.
Efforts to slow the climate crisis have long sought to harness nature, often through carbon “offsets,” aimed at bolstering forests, wetlands and agriculture, but have generally had only marginal success so far.
Read more at: University of California Santa Barbara
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