Are You Sharing a Breath With Isaac Newton?
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“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air.” When we talk about climate change or pollution, a lot of big numbers are thrown around. Like how 33 billion tons of CO2 and 660 million tons of Methane are released into the air each year. is that a lot? Or not? To answer that question, we need to ask a question: Just how big is the atmosphere? Imagine for a second that the Earth is a soccer ball. How big do you think this ball would be with the Earth’s atmosphere included? An inch? A centimeter? No. Just over 1 millimeter bigger. That’s right, all the air up there, all the molecules that keep everything alive down here, would occupy the same amount of space as a few sheets of newspaper wrapped around this ball. If we gather...
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“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air.” When we talk about climate change or pollution, a lot of big numbers are thrown around. Like how 33 billion tons of CO2 and 660 million tons of Methane are released into the air each year. is that a lot? Or not? To answer that question, we need to ask a question: Just how big is the atmosphere? Imagine for a second that the Earth is a soccer ball. How big do you think this ball would be with the Earth’s atmosphere included? An inch? A centimeter? No. Just over 1 millimeter bigger. That’s right, all the air up there, all the molecules that keep everything alive down here, would occupy the same amount of space as a few sheets of newspaper wrapped around this ball. If we gather...
