Continued from previous week
Energy Sources and Air Pollution
"Energy for lighting, heating and cooling our buildings, manufacturing products, and powering our transportation systems comes from a variety of natural sources... Each of these types of energy can be defined as renewable or non-renewable."
Energy is central to our modern economy. For the past 150 years, we have improved our well being and prosperity through the mining and burning of fossil fuels. But many environmental problems have accompanied this. This chapter examines fossil fuels and the prospect of renewable or low-carbon energy.
Sustainable Human Energy Management
Current patterns of energy use (especially fossil-based fuels) raise serious concerns for three reasons - the finite natural reserves of such energy; its detrimental effects on the global environment and the threat to long term sustainability.
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How Much Energy Do You Use?
Energy Sources and Air Pollution
Source: Environmental Science by Sean Whitcomb, Maricopa Community Colleges
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Energy
Source: Environmental Science by Dalhousie University
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Sustainable Human Energy Management
Source: Water Team of Global Development Research Center, contact: Hari Srinivas - hsrinivas@gdrc.org
Urbanization: A problem for the rich and the poor?
Source: Public Health Reviews 41 (January 2020) DOI:10.1186/s40985-019-0116-0
License: CC BY