You have learned about the various energy sources and energy uses, along with the underlying environmental problems, and calculated your carbon footprints. For this assignment, please answer the following questions clearly and concisely in your own words:
1. How are energy use and carbon footprint generally related, and why? Briefly describe in one to two sentences.
2. Pick up an item in front of you right now. It has a carbon footprint in terms of anthropogenic source of carbon dioxide emitted to make that product. Explain why and outline some steps that would take fossil fuel use to produce that product in no more than one paragraph.
3. What are three main environmental consequences of our fossil fuel use? Provide one sentence for each of these consequences in terms of their root causes and their effects.
4. Consider the emissions associated with burning fossil fuels:
· What are three emissions regulated in the U.S. for the burning of fossil fuels?
· What is the most non-toxic emission resulting from complete combustion of fossil fuel?
· What is one hazardous emission resulting from fossil fuel combustion? Describe the potential effects of this hazardous emission in one or two sentences. Is this emission on EPA’s list of Hazardous Air Pollutants (https://www.epa.gov/haps)?
