We MUST Reduce Our Carbon Foot Print or we will no longer exist as humans, and the Earth will still be here without us...

Since I couldn't find the information about the Canadian footprint I will give you info on the U.S. Carbon Footprint. I will find out what the Canadian footprint is, but since my original country is the U.S. I feel that I should write this info.

In the U.S. the EPA has calculated that within a household of two people generates approximately 41,000 lbs of carbon emissions per year. If the U.S. has approximately 304 million people (Dec 2007). That means we have a carbon footprint of 12,464,000,000,000. WOW!!! 12.5 TRILLION. Not including the industry polluters. Think of the Asthma problem now!

Keep in mind, that we are only one country!! Now, add all of the industrial countries; Canada, all of Europe, Japan, Australia and some of the economically growing countries; China, India, etc. It's definitely way past several Trillion.

Why is this important? We have been experiencing global warming; with the extremely weather patterns, getting increasingly worse by the year, if not month to month. Much higher cancer rates, due to the upper ozone levels being depleted. Most importantly, we are leaving many of these problems to our future children, grandchildren or even great grandchildren, if we live that long

We must stop going through DENIAL, and have companies who are holding the PATENTS (and have been holding these PATENTS for years, with the blessing of the auto, oil & gas companies) to our future technologies release the alternative fuels, without maximizing on oil and gas profits, before the future technology is released. This will help many economies that are currently hurting due to digging very deep within our empty pockets for the cash to pump into our cars & groceries!!!

I recently put a downpayment on a SAGA 150cc scooter, since i believe my VW Bug still releases too much carbon on a daily basis.

Remember, the earth was here way before we were, and the Earth will still be here after the human existence is gone!!!

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