Land Use Blog #2

     The use of our land is actually very important and is why climate change is rising drastically.  The article I was reading was talking about how the worlds vegetation and soil acts as a carbon sink by storing carbon dioxide through photosynthesis.  As the land is disturbed, methane mixed with carbon dioxide and nitrogenous oxide get released in the atmosphere with the carbon dioxide that is constantly being released by motorized vehicles. Now I understand, why  public transportation is becoming a big thing as the years go with us abusing our land use with more building and less land for agriculture. As I kept reading, I learned that there are 2 types of land change. There's direct and indirect changes with direct being the famous deforestation and indirect being the changes in carbon, the stuff that just happens naturally. I always knew deforestation was bad but only because animals would lose their homes but theirs more to it than that. As deforestation happens, the soil beneath tends to degrade reducing the ability to soak up carbon dioxide.

Sources: https://enviroliteracy.org/air-climate-weather/climate/land-use-changes-climate/

Ky'on Bass