The Badass Carbon Cycle

Carbon is literally the most badass element on the planet and here's why you should care.

This atom cycles through four insane reservoirs that keep everything alive.

The atmosphere traps it as CO2, oceans dissolve massive amounts of it,

living things are built from it, and rocks lock it away for millions of damn years.

But here's the crazy part: the energy in your body right now is recycled sunlight.

Plants grabbed CO2 from the air, used solar energy to build glucose molecules,

and stored that power in chemical bonds. When you burn those calories or when

things decompose, that carbon gets released back into the air to start the whole process