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A study said that the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere triggers the “bath tub” effect. Scientists used the metaphor of the bath tub because CO2 is trapped in the atmosphere, flowing freely wherever it goes.

In the Earth’s timeline, it has been shown that our environment heals itself. As long as the natural environmental cycles are not disrupted, all will be well in due time. Some times it take eons of years to restore the face of the environment as with the case of the fallen meteor that wreak havoc and killed all the prehistoric dinosaurs on earth. But the 21st century catastrophe is not about the impact of fallen meteors anymore. It is about the destruction of the environment caused by pollutants. The major pollutant is the harmful carbon dioxide gas which is emitted during the burning of fossil fuels. This may not kill us immediately but it is killing us slowly, without us knowing it.

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A study said that the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere triggers the “bath tub” effect. Scientists used the metaphor of the bath tub because CO2 is trapped in the atmosphere, flowing freely wherever it goes. And like a bath tub, the atmosphere should have drain pipes or holes. In case, it should have been the plants that would suck CO2 from the environment and convert it into useful oxygen. In the television, news about illegal logging and the destruction of our virgin jungles is like a common thing already. Therefore, there not enough trees anymore in our environment which will suck out the CO2 build-up in the atmosphere.

Obviously, when the bathtub is filled with water, excess water will overflow. In the case of the atmospheric bathtub, excess CO2 has nowhere to go except to go down to our level, destroying our climactic patterns and creating that invisible blanket that makes the temperature rise. Everything is amplified to its nth capacity. In some countries, people suffer and die of skin cancer and their crops, too produce lesser goods that further caused poverty and drought. In some places, on the other hand, like England, there has also been an excessive snow or rain fall.

With the continuing emission of tons of CO2 everyday, it was feared that there is nothing to be optimistic about in the next decades. The environment’s capacity to naturally-heal itself has been destructed.