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anglagard
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Message 14 of 124 (434664)
11-16-2007 7:22 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by crashfrog
11-16-2007 6:56 PM


Actual Figures
NJ writes:
How about the loudest put their money where their mouth is and get rid of their car, get rid of plastics, don't use electricity, etc, etc...
Crashfrog writes:
Because those things are maybe 10% of the emissions. The problem is not you using incandescent instead of florescent light bulbs; the problem is industrial and manufacturing emissions.
From: Greenhouse gas - Wikipedia
A picture is worth a thousand words
As one can see from the pie chart in the lower left corner, transportation and electricity generation make up nearly 50% of CO2 emissions and from the large pie chart, 35% of all greenhouse gas emissions.

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