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                                             Some Things to Consider

Are we running out of Energy?

Standards of living are always changing with the advances of new technologies, and with these changes more life can be spared were once it may have perished.  Each year our world’s population grows larger and the demand for more energy is ever growing with us. Today 75% of the world is surviving in less developed countries, and if these people are to improve there standards of living, we as a planet need to find a lasting source of energy.

Rate of population increase

Year

World Population

Rate of Increase per year

 

 

 

1800

1 billion

1.0%

1900

1.5 billion

1.0%

1930

2 billion

1.7%

1960

3 billion

2.0%

1975

4 billion

1.8%

1987

5 billion

1.7%

2000

6 billion

1.3%

 

 

 

What are we doing to our Planet?

Ever since man gave up his nomadic ways and the agricultural revolution took place an ever-small change in our atmosphere has been taking place.  Today nearly 21 billion tones of carbon dioxide are put into the atmosphere with modern mans inventions. As these gases accumulate they trap more and more heat within our earths atmosphere giving what is renown as the Greenhouse effect or Global warming.  Over time these changes are slowly increasing the average world temperatures, as well as changing weather patterns, and an ever-growing concern of the melting ice caps is steadily getting more attention. 

If such things are allowed to continue, it could change our planet on a global scale to the point were present life would be much different from what we are used to seeing today.  Thus far today mans active contribution to the growing threat and concern of the Greenhouse effect are generally as follows:

     * CO2          Carbon dioxide     60%

     * CH4               Methane                20%

     * CFC’s     Halocarbons         14%

     * N2O         Nitrous oxide         6%

 

                                   

 

                            

                        

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