1. Water & Carbon Cycle Changes Over Time
The impact of fossil fuel combustion and carbon sequestration on flows and
stores of carbon.

2. Fossil Fuels and Carbon Sequestration
Starter Place “humans burn fossil fuels” into the centre of a flow diagram to show what happens to the carbon before and after.

3. Fossil Fuels and Carbon Sequestration
Read the first section on page 124. Use the data to explain how the burning of fossil fuels has changed the size of the stores in the carbon cycle. If the hydrosphere and biosphere can increase their store of carbon, should we worry about burning fossil fuels? Read the Scientific America article entitled “The other CO2 problem”.

4. Fossil Fuels and Carbon Sequestration
Why don’t we simply capture the CO2 released from power stations and return it to the geosphere?

5. Fossil Fuels and Carbon Sequestering
Read page and the article on carbon sequestration.
Explain how the technology works.
What are the benefits?
What are the problems?

6. Fossil Fuels and Carbon Sequestration
Do you hold a technocentric or ecocentric view on this issue?
From Morgan, J (2001) Development, Globalisation and Sustainability