into substances such as peat, lignite, petroleum,and coal. The carbon cycle, temporarily interrupted in this manner, iscompleted as fuels are burned, and carbon dioxide and water are again added tothe atmosphere for reuse by living things, and the solar energy stored byphotosynthesis ages ago is released (Kino*censored*a 273-275). Almost everything around us today has some connection with carbon or a carboncompound. Carbon is in every living organism. Without carbon life would notexist as we know it....
