TB's view on the environment

Commercial  Transportation Effects      This week I read two articles about how much transportation in the US is causing Climate Change from CO2 pollution. The US is  a big part of producing lots of CO2 emissions. For example according to the Center for Biological Diversity , a third of our country’s climate-damaging emissions. In California transportation is the leading source of greenhouse gas pollution, accounting for about 40% of the state’s emissions. Fossil-fueled transportation emissions also create smog, soot, and other harmful air pollution.      CO2 emissions are emitted from different forms of transportation. Aircraft are the third-largest source of greenhouse gas pollution from the U.S. transportation sector and account for approximately 9 percent of U.S. transportation, and the emissions from domestic aviation are increasing at an alarming rate — 17 percent since 1990. Ships , besides releasing almost 3% of the world’s CO 2 , are the...

New England This week, I read t wo articles, that focused on deforestation in New England and in the Amazon rain forest. The main idea of this article called As Forests Decline Globally, New England Is Not Immune, was that we need to start changing things here in New England because our deforestation damage will catch up to us sooner rather than later. The article talks about how there is an increase in carbon dioxide in the air that helps the young trees grow faster. According to Barbara Moran, it's also causing rising temperatures which causes droughts and wilder fires. This will cause us to not gain any more tree growth in New England. Also, warming temps can cause more insect species to move in. We are entering a second wave where or trees will not recover because we are putting business and houses where the trees were. So the trees can’t come back as they did from the 1800s. ( Free-Photos) Am...