Imagine you are responsible for reducing carbon emissions throughout New York St

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Imagine you are responsible for reducing carbon emissions throughout New York State. You can select only 4 of the 15 wedge scenarios to switch to. Which four would you select and why? Do these differ from what you would select as an individual? If so, explain? Do you believe we can realistically reduce carbon emissions to 1992 levels applying the wedges scenario, or are we just headed for climate collapse?
Wedges found here: http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/pdfs/teachers_guide.pdf Imagine you are responsible for reducing carbon emissions throughout New York State. You can select only 4 of the 15 wedge scenarios to switch to. Which four would you select and why? Do these differ from what you would select as an individual? If so, explain? Do you believe we can realistically reduce carbon emissions to 1992 levels applying the wedges scenario, or are we just headed for climate collapse?
Wedges found here: http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/pdfs/teachers_guide.pdf
Wedges found here: http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/pdfs/teachers_guide.pdf

Explanation / Answer

Yes, we all know that the emission of carbom dioxide and other polluting substances are increasing day by day very rapidly. this is now a serious problem which should be look and resolve globally. the environmental pollution and its impact to the human and society is a global issues. today the developement and growth of the world is so fast that industrilization and human activities are polluting the atmosphere and increase the concerntration of carbon to the atmosphere.

This increase concerntration of CO2 lead to the decrease in the concerntration of oxygen from the air. suppose the case of New York city, due to increase in globalization, industrilization and trasportation usage, it consume lots of fuels and resulted in the formation or emission of carbon dioxide. we have to resolve this issues as soon as possible. for this we have the four scenerio to adopt-

1) fuel switching( coal to gas)- Suppose the condition, that we are use gaseous fuel instead of solid coal fuel. this will decrease the pollution level from the environment. as the burnt gases doesn't produce any polluting waste product so if we use gas fuel such as CNG then it will deceases the emission of carbon to the atmosphere.

2) hydrogen fuels- It is act like an ideal case for fuel usage and management. because we know that when we use hydrogen as a fuel than it burnt and produce energy and the by product will be water, which is not harmful. infact it will be environment friendly source of energy production.

3) wind-generator electricity- It is a renewable source of energy which can be utilize as long as the earth live. this are environment friendly, efficient and even not produce any type of by product. so if we install this kind of energy producing system then there will be no carbon emission to the environment in the name of power generation.

4) solar-electricity- It can be also an ideal source of enegy production. it is a renewable source of energy which can produce a lot of enegy in form of electricity. this will made us independent to the sources of enegy production which are based on carbon releasing as byproduct. by adopting this we will give rise to the world an environment with pollution free.

I am thinking so because if we use or utilize that sources of energy production which is renewable as well as harmless then there will be no chance of pollution to take place. but the important thing is that we have to move our steps individually in this direction to resolve this global issue.

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