The carbon cycle is a cycle of carbon (in the form of CO2) being added to or taken from the atmosphere, balancing it out The processes are usually done through processes, such as: combustion, AI generatio,n etc.. The cycle is the balance of CO₂ getting removed and added. The problem is the imbalance of carbon in the atmosphere. Too much or a lack of CO₂ will kill off most of the aerobic life on earth. The problem right now is that we are producing too much CO₂. This is through ways such as combustion, burning, and exhaling. On the contrary, the way that CO₂ is used is mainly in photosynthesis for plants but due to deforestation, it isn't removing enough carbon from the atmosphere. (kmansfield).

We are the biggest problem when it comes to balancing the atmosphere is us. We create an unbalance of CO₂ in unnatural ways such as combustion, burning (for example, fossil fuels), Generative AI, and many more. We also lower CO₂ intake by chopping trees and trashing in the ocean.

You can help balance the atmosphere by:

Now diving specfically in AI a modern cause of carbon cycle disruption. Massive amounts of energy is used for AI every day. It's not even limited to electricity LLM's use ~50 million gallons according to Barnett. This is even worse for LLM's for example chatGPT has over 1 million GPUs (Zewe).

What are some ways to prevent AI? Some ways incude spreading awareness and donating. On a global scale more AI regulation and laws will help in controlling AI. Regulation can also help with preventing illegal use cases, enviroment destruction (incuding the imbalance of the carbon cycle), regulate usage, create more AI safty and block AI from seeing certain websites. We can also reglate AI image generation by adding watermarks so they are more noticable and can be differentiated and cannot be used also in illegal use cases.

Spreading awareness is the easiest route and can be done in a short amount of time. You could: inform your friends, friends, coworkers and family members. You could also create a website that spreads awareness to the situation. The greedy companies are trying to hide it. STOP THEM.