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Globalization's carbon bootprint.(SPYHOPPING: A whale's act of coming out of the water to examine its surroundings)
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Earth Island Journal
- Article date:
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June 22, 2008
- Author:
- Smith, Gar
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Anyone interested in big picture solutions to climate change must eventually confront the inconvenient truth that one of the major forces stoking the greenhouse is globalization. The infrastructure of global trade--ships, trains, cars, trucks, and aircraft--all produce global warming gasses.
Driven by globalization, transportation's appetite for oil has increased dramatically since 1973. Transportation now consumes nearly 60 percent of the world's oil, and demand is anticipated to grow 2.5 percent annually--faster than any other sector of the world economy. The International Panel on Climate Change estimates the global transport system belches out about 92 percent of the ...