Since about hafway through the last century, the world has been burning through energy at an ever- increasing rate. Cars and houses have got an bigger, people tend to buy more, eat more and travel more.
As a diret result of this, not only have our energy bills skyrocket, but so too have overall cost to us, and the enviroiment, all of which will have lasting effects around the globe.
What exactly is happening?
Energy use is increasing :
The general trend towords people living in larger houses, buying more and larger cars, appliances and gadgets-generally over-consuming-requires ever-increasing amounts of energy. with our more affluent lifestyles, we have rapidly increased our comsumtion, which has caused our energy bills to increase.
The cost of supplying energy is increasing:
As non-renewable energy souces such as oil that is processed into petrol and coal that is used to generate electricity to power our homes, offices and factories are diminishing, the cost of obtaining and processing these resources is rising.
We are changing our planet:
When non-renewable fuels such as coal and oil are burned, they produce pollution. Some is air-bone perticle pollution (smog and soot) and some is greenhouse gas pollution, which we know causes global temperatures to rise. The enviroiment consequences of global warming have begun-drought, floods and violent storms-along with billions of dollars in property damage, infrstucture losses and crop wipeouts.
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