This is an translation's homework. I have already done half of it and the short paragraph I've posted above is the part I wish to see in another word to get it easier. This is the whole text: we are in a race the race is against time we have to build cities we need them but we have to make them in a different way we need a wave of innovation not only for our way of life but also the planet the consequences would be enormous if we lose this battle I'm Thomas gets executive editor at Wired magazine and wired we look at the innovators innovations that are changing our world in the next hour we'll see three stories from acclaimed film makers about the future of energy will explore cutting-edge innovations in how we drive how we live and in our first story how we fuel our hearts they're all ideas that promise to shape the path to the world of 2050 all the world has right now close to a billion cars and by double the number of cars of the plant addicted so we doubled our vehicles we really increase the amount of fuel they consume and that's gonna have a big big footprint in terms of our demand for resources to move on most vehicles around we're pulling up carbon has been stored underground and burning in our automobiles and putting all that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere we don't reduce that can have changes in the climate that we could never recover from

I don't know who gave you this as homework but I would question their level of English because the piece is not written in correct English to begin with and has a huge number of mistakes. Your sentence should read We are pulling up carbon that has been stored underground and burning it in our cars This means we are extracting or taking carbon out of the ground in oil and using it to fuel cars

Hello! Could you please explain the meaning of ''Pulling up" in this paragraph and maybe rewrite it in another way so that it can be easily understood? Thank You in advance. "We're pulling up carbon which has been stored underground, burning it in our automobiles and putting all that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere." It makes sense to me if you rewrite it a little. It then just means we are taking oil out of the earth.