If you go from an ordinary car to an SUV that guzzles up fuel at 13 mpg, typically you’d be wasting the equivalent of a TV being stitched on for 28 years, having the refrigerator door open for six years or a bathroom light on for 30 years.
On average, an SUV throw out 43% more of the pollutants that cause global warming and 47% more air pollution than a normal car.
According to the EPA. The US each person put out 6.6 tons of greenhouse gases every year. From 1990 to 1997, emissions per person have gone up by about 3.4%. 82% of these emissions actually comes from using cars and to burn fossil fuels for electricity. The other 15% is caused by methane produced from landfills, livestock, coal, industrial chemicals and the likes.
It’s estimated that the planet could easily increase in temperature by 5 degrees which will mean that animals and plants will become extinct. Our CO2 levels will also double to what they were years ago.
Americans create about a quarter of the carbon dioxide created by humans despite the fact that Americans only make up 5% of the total population of the world.
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