Man-made Activities that Cause Global Warming

There are many who feel that controlling man-kind activities can help decrease the issue of global warming. Throughout the world we use trees for buildings, paper, and other materials we need to survive or we convert forests into farmland. Part of the problem with using so many trees and cutting trees down is that trees use our carbon dioxide to live, the more we kill the less volume of carbon dioxide they can remove.  According to National Geographics,"...forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area, but an area the size of Panama is lost every year" (National). As well as deforestation throughout the globe we are burning fossil fuels at increasing rates. Expert Bob Ward from the Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science says last year's data of the U.S. "also showed that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had reached 390 parts per million, its highest level for at least 800,000 years and almost 40 per cent higher than the level before the start of the Industrial Revolution when humans started to burn fossil fuels in increasing amounts"(2010). This trend will continue to grow at an exponential rate due to population increase and longer life spans; more people means more fuel required. So how can we decrease these issues? Trees and fossil fuels are essential items humans need to live? Can and will recycling become a bigger deal in the future? Will cars finally be able to operate without gas and without needing to be charged every few hours? These are just a few questions scientists are asking and trying to find solutions for.

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Fig 1 and Fig 2: environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/