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    My second critical response essay is on the reading Getting Fossil Fuels Off the Plate by Michael Bomford. This reading is about how food is grown, processed, and transported around the world and how much energy it takes to get food from its origin to your plate. Our aptitude to obtain food with ease is our most treasured resource, but regrettably our present structures of food production, especially agriculture, are causative to the failing strength of the world’s air and water, while…

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    The world has solely relied on fossil fuels to supply us energy. Alone petroleum, coal, natural gas, and oil makes up eighty-one percent of the United States of America’s energy. If the world does not push to use alternative energy, eventually completely switching to alternative energy, leaving fossil fuels in the past, we will never stop some of the environmental problems contributed with burning fossil fuels. Some of the harsh environmental problems are air pollution, water pollution, and oil…

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    Currently the main source of energy used in the United States is Fossil Fuels. Our overdependence on Fossil Fuels has lead to some negative changes in the Earth’s climate and physical form. Lucky, there have been new advances in technology over the past century. Various forms of renewable energy have been discovered and tested by scientist and over the past decade have become more well known to the public. The development of of these renewable energy sources give us the opportunity to change the…

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    Of these, the major one is carbon dioxide which accounts for six times more global warming than the other GHGs combined. Carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. We also increase the amount of carbon dioxide through deforestation. Trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. When a forest is cut, not only will carbon dioxide be released if we burn the…

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    Introduction Fossil fuels play a very important role in administering the economy efficiently and enforcing newer developments effectively. Oil & gas, Coal and other mineral resources supports us with most of our energy mix and touch our lives in multiple dimensions. They cater to everything - from domestic uses to manufacturing industries, and from transportation fuel to synthesis of organic and chemical products. India is a country with more than 1.2 billion people accounting for more than 17…

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    the dawn of the industrial revolution, man has struggled to search for a sustainable resource to quench the insatiable energy needs of the society and this has led to a heavy reliance on fossil fuels whose resources are non-renewable – they cannot be replenished. The realization that some of these fossil fuel resources may not last long enough and are well on their way to depletion or may eventually be too expensive to retrieve has led to even more panic as people face the energy dilemma –…

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    Coal, oil, and natural gas are proven technologies, are much cheaper than any other energy source, and provide massive amounts of electricity. Due to the aforementioned consequences of relying on fossil fuels, however, it is time to find a new energy source. Nuclear energy is often seen as dangerous, with its opponents warning of possible apocalyptic explosions and Chernobyl-esque radiation poisoning. This interpretation, however, is terribly flawed. Nuclear…

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    It include littleness of the environmental load, consumption reduction of the fossil fuel, energy security, industrial development, job creation mainly. Then, there is the reduction effect of greenhouse gas discharges such as carbon dioxide. Also, the wind-generated electricity can anticipate improvement of the energy self-sufficiency ratio…

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    The burning of fossil fuels for energy is still the world’s primary source of CO2 emissions. As a result, solar technology has become a primary candidate in the era of finding new ways to create emission free energy. Solar power harnesses the energy of the sun’s rays to generate electricity that is considered environmentally friendly, or “green,” due to the almost nonexistent emission of CO2 throughout the process. The electricity produced by solar farms can then be added to the grid and…

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    processes cause the global warming that continues to affect our environment. Greenhouse gases are the main cause of global warming. Human beings have raised carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with their activities, such as deforestation, and burning fossil fuels. The other major causes of global warming is population growth, pollution, and industrialization. These changes are resulting rise in sea level, melting glaciers, damage of the ozone layer, unseasonable rains, and also increasing many…

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