Word: fossilizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resurrect the American infrastructure, the government might help finance federal, state and local partnerships to build mass transit, opting for light rail more often than underground subway lines. These transit systems would easily pay back their start-up costs through reduced consumption of fossil fuels, diminished pollution and traffic congestion. The construction could be financed, at least in part, by new taxes on parking and gasoline. Similarly, high-speed railcars could be a new, more efficient means of transportation and could be paid for by imposing new taxes on diesel and jet fuel. Those levies would not be popular...
...ever since the industrial revolution in the mid-1800s, carbon dioxide levels have been steadily rising. As industry expands, consumption of fossil fuels rises to meet the demands of that growth, he says...
Scientists have already found a direct correlation between the increase in fossil fuel use and the elevated carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. It is estimated that 80 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere is due to industrial consumption of fossil fuels, while 20 percent is due to deforestation...
Bazzaz theorizes that carbon dioxide levels will rise exponentially in the near future as underdeveloped countries become industrialized and consume more fossil fuel...
Third-world countries currently consume approximately 2 percent of the fossil fuels that industrialized countries use. As these countries develop in the future, fossil fuel use will skyrocket dramatically...