Our Earth is The Carbon Planet, Life Planet. Carbon Enables Life Letter to the Editor & To all Honourable Members of Parliament Carbon is the universe’s fourth most abundant element after hydrogen, helium, oxygen. It’s one of the least abundant elements in Earth's crust. Carbon has three main forms: - Diamond - among hardest materials - Graphite - soft - Amorphous - non-crystalline, powdery. Carbon forms more compounds than any other element - almost ten million organic compounds, a tiny fraction of its possible compounds. Carbon is the chemical basis of all known life and present in all known life forms. Trees, animals, bacteria… Life on Earth was possible because of carbon, evolved with carbon and depends on carbon. In human bodies, after oxygen, carbon is the second most abundant element - 18.5%. Life cycles: carbon is the key component in biology, many vital processes such as photosynthesis and bodily processes (breathing, digestion) Carbon occurs naturally throughout the atmosphere, crust, oceans and life forms. Humans depend on carbon for food, energy, shelter, transport. The IPCC and governments falsely frame carbon as black pollution using: - language - ‘emissions’, ‘carbon pollution’, ‘fugitive emissions’; - costly, useless bureaucratic measurement ingraining carbon as pollution; - tax; - glossy advertisements misrepresenting carbon using sinister black animations and footage of third world industry; - schools indoctrinating children. Carbon is natural, essential and ‘green’. Carbon dioxide is invisible. We’re carbon. We need carbon. Carbon is not humanity’s enemy. It’s ‘a girl’s best friend’. Carbon is not pollution. It’s essential to life. The issue is not CO2. The issue is the IPCC. Every Emissions Trading Scheme is a dark green tax that cannot impact climate. Have you done your due diligence for Australia? No. 3 of a Series: IPCC & PM Want a Tax on Carbon & Oxygen - Attacks on Life Malcolm Roberts BE (Hons), MBA (Chicago) Fellow AICD, MAIM, MAusIMM, MAME (USA), MIMM (UK), Fellow ASQ (USA, Aust) 180 Haven Road Pullenvale QLD 4069 Mobile 04 1964 2379 E-mail: [email protected] .