Pollution Research Paper

POSSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH PERILS ASSOCIATED WITH ENHANCED ROCK WEATHERING

PINAK DUTTA AND MITA DUTTA

Abstract

Research for developing negative emission technology for carbon capture in order to arrest global warming is a globe wide craze. Enhanced crop weathering in crop fields is a promising technique but comes with a package of negativities specially for developing countries in the form of crop quality and human health degradation, possibility of biodiversity loss in both land and marine ecosystem and pollution caused by usage of non green energy for crushing, transporting and spreading the rock dust. Much introspection is needed to take care of these pitfalls before implementing the process on a large scale.