Carbonomics Countries no.1: Britain’s Carbon Status. Britain is a Geophysiological Disaster Zone: The Autumn 2000 Floods were proof of the Country’s Gross Unsustainability.

It has been estimated that in 1988, 7.66 billion tons of Carbon were dumped into the atmosphere. Let’s assume that in the same year there were 6,000,000,000 bipeds on Earth. This means the amount of Carbon released into the atmosphere during the year by an average ooman was just over 1 tonne. All sorts of calculations can then be performed to show how much more Carbon is released by the average american than the average indian. It is also possible to use such facts to estimate what each country needs to do in order to ensure that their Carbon are released on a globally equitable basis.

Unfortunately, these calculations are concerned only with Carbon emissions i.e. one side of the Earth’s Carbon spiral. The consequence of these calculations is that many injustices emerge - the primary one of which is that third world countries end up polluting the atmosphere as much as the over-industrialized nations. However, another set of calculations could take into account both sides of the global Carbon spiral and thus avoid the geophysiological inadequacies, and gross political inequalities, inherent in calculations involving only Carbon emissions. The following sections explore the conclusions that could be drawn from facts about both sides of the Earth’s Carbon spiral. This section explores conclusions that can be reached about the Earth and the next section explores those which could be reached about britain. As regards the latter it should be possible to determine the country’s current Carbon status, its historic Carbon status, and a provisional Carbon budget it would need to combat global burning on a geophysiologically equitable basis. The methodologies used in calculating the results for britain could easily be applied to other countries.

4: The Earth’s Current Carbon Status.
		4.1: Measuring both sides of the Carbon Spiral. It has been estimated that in 1988, 7.66 billion tons of Carbon were dumped into the atmosphere. Let’s assume that in the same year there were 6,000,000,000 bipeds on Earth. This means the amount of Carbon released into the atmosphere during the year by an average ooman was just over 1 tonne. All sorts of calculations can then be performed to show how much more Carbon is released by the average american than the average indian. It is also possible to use such facts to estimate what each country needs to do in order to ensure that their Carbon are released on a globally equitable basis. Unfortunately, these calculations are concerned only with Carbon emissions i.e. one side of the Earth’s Carbon spiral. The consequence of these calculations is that many injustices emerge - the primary one of which is that third world countries end up polluting the atmosphere as much as the over-industrialized nations. However, another set of calculations could take into account both sides of the global Carbon spiral and thus avoid the geophysiological inadequacies, and gross political inequalities, inherent in calculations involving only Carbon emissions. The following sections explore the conclusions that could be drawn from facts about both sides of the Earth’s Carbon spiral. This section explores conclusions that can be reached about the Earth and the next section explores those which could be reached about britain. As regards the latter it should be possible to determine the country’s current Carbon status, its historic Carbon status, and a provisional Carbon budget it would need to combat global burning on a geophysiologically equitable basis. The methodologies used in calculating the results for britain could easily be applied to other countries. 4.2: Global Per capita Carbon Emissions. Global per capita Carbon emissions are 7.66gtC divided by 6,000,000,000 i.e. 1.3tC per person per year. 4.3: Global Emissions per Square Kilometre. The land area on Earth is approximately 149,000,000 km2. It can be calculated that, on average, one square kilometre releases into the atmosphere, on average, 7.66gtC divided by 149,000,000 km2 which equals about 51tC. 4.4: Density of Humans per Square Kilometre. Assuming there are 6 billion humans on Earth this gives an average density of 6 billion divided by 149,000,000 km2 which equals 40 people per square kilometre.

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4: The Earth’s Current Carbon Status.