Word: carbons
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...that its policies are not only resulting in the wanton destruction of Brazil's forest, its wildlife and its native peoples, but are also endangering the world environment. Scientists say the fires set by ranchers and homesteaders in the Amazon region are spewing into the atmosphere 7% of the carbon dioxide responsible for the global warming process known as the greenhouse effect...
Despite the chrome and modern conveniences of Sheremyetovo International Airport, the old city quickly pulls you into her familiar, exhausting, yet not altogether unpleasant embrace: the slush and mud of the broad avenues; the air that smells of bad cigarettes, carbon monoxide and disinfectant; the monotony of dun-colored buildings; the occasional startling glimpse of a golden-domed church or pastel-walled czarist mansion; the dark masses hurrying by or huddling in their inevitable queues to buy what little is in the stores. Much more than merely familiar, Moscow today seems as immutable, as depressingly eternal as ever...
Thus the wood-stove bore is without defenses, except to say that his obsession is unlikely to melt down New England and that it adds no net CO2 to the atmospheric greenhouse (a fallen tree gives off the same amount of carbon and oxygen whether it rots or burns, and a new tree that spreads in its place takes CO2 out of the air as it grows...
Nowadays, after a year of ecological nightmares, Lipkis is promoting tree planting as the easiest solution to the greenhouse effect, the buildup of CO2 ( that has environmentalists warning of a disastrous global warming trend. Trees absorb as much as 48 lbs. of carbon dioxide per year each. Guided by the success of Lipkis' volunteer efforts, the American Forestry Association announced in October a citizens' campaign to plant 100 million trees around the country...
...produces less than half as much economic output as Japan and West Germany. Meanwhile, the commitment to reduce pollution has flagged. Although the U.S. accounts for less than 5% of the global population, it generates 15% of the world's sulfur dioxide emissions and 25% of nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide. Each American produces an average of 3 1/2 lbs. of trash...