Word: fossilize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month Venezuela experienced three days of strife and rioting, when the government raised the price of gasoline by lowering the subsidy on the fossil fuel and increased urban bus fares by 30 percent. The chaotic days left 300 people dead, 2000 injured, and another 2000 in jail...
...sounds. It is easy to quantify how much CO2 comes from burning a gallon of gasoline, a ton of coal or a cubic yard of natural gas. Most countries already have gasoline taxes; similar fees, set according to the amount of CO2 produced, could be put on all fossil-fuel sources. At the same time, companies could be given credits against their CO2 taxes if they planted trees to take some...
Ultimately, though, the world must move away from fossil fuels for most of its energy needs. Said Berrien Moore, director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, Oceans and Space at the University of New Hampshire: "Even if you cut emissions of CO2 in half, the atmospheric concentration will keep going up. You're still adding CO2 faster than you're withdrawing it, so the balance keeps rising...
...problem that can, and must, be solved. Third World countries do not have the technical or managerial expertise to deal with the complexities of nuclear power. They will be forced, at least for the foreseeable future, to rely primarily on environmentally harmful fossil fuels. That is going to put pressure on the developed world to produce increasing amounts of cheaper, safer nuclear power...
...nations of the world take immediate action, the destruction of the global environment can be slowed substantially. But some irreversible damage is inevitable. Even if fossil-fuel emissions are cut drastically, the overall level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will still increase -- along with the likelihood of some global warming. Even if toxic dumping is banned outright and that ban is strictly enforced, some lakes and aquifers will be tainted by poisons that have already been released. Even if global population growth could somehow be cut in half, there would still be more than 45 million new mouths...