For the first time in history, the carbon in this planet has been precisely quantified, with very interesting results and conclusions.

The most relevant of the published data is the enormous amount of carbon that the rocks under our feet can store, 99 8% of the total existing on the planet, in total there are 1,850 million gigatons, which for you to get an idea is double the joint mass of all asteroid belt bodies or slightly less than the mass of all terrestrial oceans.

On the surface there is only this 0.2 percent, 43500 gigatons forming part of the gases of the atmosphere or living beings, something that this study has also contributed is a detailed analysis of the balance that exists in the system, the so-called carbon cycle. What has finally been found is that volcanoes take approximately the same carbon from the interior of the planet as tectonic plates are responsible for putting in and it has also been published that humans release 40 times more carbon than volcanoes, although starting from fossil fuels, by what soon the trend will end because they are running out.