A tale of two cycles

Christopher Gasson asks why we don’t value water as much as carbon.

There are two elemental cycles which make life on earth possible: carbon and water. There are two important differences between the two. The first is location. The carbon cycle is essentially a global phenomenon. There is an enormous trade in food and fossil fuels around the world, and as these are consumed, the resulting carbon dioxide has an equal impact ...

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