... remaining emissions are from methane from wastes in landfills, raising livestock, natural gas pipelines, and coal, as well as from industrial chemicals and other sources. Once, all climate changes occurred naturally. However, during the Industrial Revolution, we began altering our climate and environment through changing agricultural and industrial practices. Before the Industrial Revolution, human activity released very few gases into ... the atmosphere, but now through population growth, fossil fuel burning, and deforestation, we are affecting the mixture of gases in the atmosphere. Th...

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... orgy. Wars are waged and civilizations rise and fall, but always man prospers. Millennia pass and our population numbers soar. The Industrial Revolution brought about the dawn of the technological age we now thrive in. The use of fossil fuels and internal combustion engines were the catalyst for exponential rates of social, economic, and technological growth. Man has seemingly conquered his only remaining ... its emission credits by building low-pollution energy and industrial plants in other countries. U.S. high technologies that reduce global warming should be encouraged, and so shoul...

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... These figures are not consistent with a natural trend, and, when one considers the tens of thousands of years in which humans have inhabited the earth, and that humans have really only started burning fossil fuels heavily since the industrial revolution, and the fact that the world's population is only going to increase, this number is dauntingly enormous. Increased ... rewards of longer growing seasons. Several studies have shown that, while some regions will suffer agriculturally, America's nationwide food production will not decline substantially. In fact, recent assessments suggest ...

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