Most of these emissions, about 82%, are from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity and power our cars. ... Several factors can affect the emissions per person in a state, for example, the types of fuel used to generate electricity, population and vehicle miles traveled ,and whether fossil fuels are extracted or processed within the state. ... These areas are the electricity we use in our homes, the waste we produce, and personal transportation. ...

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This includes the usage of plastics (purchases as well) and electricity, both of which are produced in factories and power plant facilities that yield substantial amounts of carbon dioxide emmisions every year. ... Likewise, we could fund more research towards future non-gas emission industries that produce our everyday cars, plastics, and electricity. ...

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Global warming is the gradual increase in the earth's average temperature of the atmosphere, which in the long history of the earth has occurred naturally but within the last century or so humans have now started to heat up the globe through their activities. At first thought it seems outrageous to...

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Something as simple as replacing traditional incandescent bulbs with fluorescent bulbs can lower your electric bill and take a half-ton of carbon dioxide out of the air.7 Electricity plants are potent source of greenhouse gas emission. ...

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GLOBAL WARMING Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to nuclear war. Fossil fuel burning, deforestation, and the release of industrial chemicals are rapidly heating the Earth to temperatures not experienced in human memory. Environmentally we have reached a point of unprecedented damage. Limiting global heating and climatic change is the central environmental challenge of our time. If it does not change, human health, birds fish, and many types of ecosystems will be permanently harmed. ...

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