Humans have a long history of deforestation, clearing areas for agriculture or infrastructure for centuries. However, as time has gone on, a growing human population, rapidly expanding industries and globalization have made deforestation more common. As early as the 17th century, extensive deforestation was the happening across North America and Europe. Colonizers deforested broad swaths of North …
Fuel subsidies for fossil fuels are one of the most major financial hurdles to the world’s move away from fossil fuels and toward alternative energy sources. Every year, governments spend more than half a trillion dollars to artificially lower the price of fossil fuels. While combined renewable energy technologies subsidies are less than 200 billion. Everyone agrees …
A carbon tax is a fee for emitting a certain amount of carbon through the burning of fossil fuels and other industrial processes. Carbon taxes are one of two forms of carbon pricing, with the other being emissions trading systems (ETS). Mitigation and preventative strategies like carbon taxes and ETSs are vital to slowing and reversing climate …
Renewable energy accounts for 1/3rd of all electricity however that is mileading as biofuels from primarily from corn and biomass that is primarily from trees are placed into the renewable energy statistics. Just because an energy is labeled as renewable it does not make it better than fossil fuels. There is no current risk of …
In the 80’s humans globally united to keep the hole in the ozone layer from expanding. Simplicity of the issue with direct changes of products produced quick and important changes of the consumers that no longer wanted the products linked to the problem. We need quick and important change today before we face an even …
We need climate literacy to be taught in the world wide. Carbon Dioxide’s ability to absorb and emit infrared radiation has been known for over 150 years and it’s potential impact from human activities has been studied for over 100 years. Why is it not common knowledge today? With so much scientific research being done …
