The sad truth is that we will have to continue our global output of C02 at this rate in order to avoid worldwide starvation and death. This is something we can't go back on. It takes this machine to continue to feed a World population of .6.5 billion people. There is no turning back unless we want to deal with letting millions of people die of starvation.
You may say, "well then let's not consume as much today or not buy a new pair of tennis shoes". However we are all interconnected and by making that choice you would contribute to the closing down of some factory in China.
You may say that we should go to other forms of energy. However, it takes a great about of oil in order to set up alternative energy sources. Most of these other energy sources do not give us the output we need. If you were to line up solar panals or windmills from the tip of Maine all the way down to Miami and run it for a day it would only give you enough energy to run the US's energy consumption for a couple of minutes. We are still afraid to use nuclear power for energy which is a tragedy.
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