Carbon searchers don’t know about the Carboniferous Era. Plants made so much carbon we had to buy it all. It was a mess.

>>17078774
bury*

>>17078609
>What would have happened if humans never mined/ pumped fossil fuels?
low level hand farming hunting civilization, like old west with horses and wagons.
You can look up the graph that represents the relationship between energy vs economic growth.

>Where does all the carbon on earth come from anyway?
created during supernovas and blasted out in space to be accumulated in accretion disks that form planets around stars.

>>17078776
>low level hand farming hunting civilization, like old west with horses and wagons.
I meant on a evolutionary scale.
Would life forms had to adapt to less carbon?

>created during supernovas
But why Earth? Is there an equal amount on Mars and Venus?

>>17078776
>created during supernovas
You're thinking about heavier than iron elements anon. Rest up to iron is made in the sun?
Carbon has 6 protons. Hydrogen -> Helium -> Lithium -> Beryllium -> Boron -> Carbon. So no, not made in supernova lol

>>17078873
They have to get out of the star somehow. How else if not by a supernova?

>>17078876
Solar winds
>>17078609
>Would all the oil and coal disappear into the earth's core and the surface would eventually run out of carbon, making life impossible?
I don't think so, the mantle should have just as much material. But the Earth isn't going to move a lot more before it dies so it's not going to the core. It's still trapped though. So maybe releasing CO2 could turn the planet into a jungle again, but that's not going to happen since we don't even let forests exist in most of the world.

>>17078876
even if, it's released, not created, in a supernova.