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Global Warming: A Global Crisis (Effects (17 of the 18 warmest years have…

- - - - Saving water reduces carbon pollution because it takes energy to pump, heat and treat water. The EPA estimates that if just 1 out of every 100 American homes were fitted with water-efficient fixtures, about 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year would be saved- avoiding 80,000 tons of global warming pollution.
        https://www.nrdc.org/stories/how-you-can-stop-global-warming
        
        Since they were implemented in 1987, efficiency standards for appliances and products have kept 2.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide out of the air. That's the same amount as the annual carbon pollution emitted by nearly 440 million cars.
        https://www.nrdc.org/stories/how-you-can-stop-global-warming
    - - Climate Data Initiative; Data related to climate change that can help inform and prepare America's communities, businesses and citizens: https://www.data.gov/climate/
      - U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit: Provides scientific tools, information and expertise to help people manage their climate-related risks and opportunities, and improve their resilience to extreme events. https://toolkit.climate.gov/
      - Environmental Protection Agency: Tools for learning and understanding environmental issues and recommendations for greener living.
        https://www.epa.gov/environmental-topics/greener-living
- - - - More than 1 billion rural people depend on forests to some extent while over 90% of people living in extreme poverty depend on forests for all of their livelihood.
        https://www.conservation.org/stories/Pages/11-deforestation-facts-you-need-to-know.aspx
      - Nearly half of the world's rainforests have been lost since the 1960s, and it is estimated that within 100 years there will be no rainforests.
        
        Everyday, about 81,000 hectares of rainforest are burned around the world - an area that is 14 times the size of Manhattan.
        https://www.conservation.org/stories/Pages/11-deforestation-facts-you-need-to-know.aspx
  - - - Transportation exhaust is responsible for 13% of all greenhouse gas emissions.
        http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/
        "Livestock's Long Shadow: environmental issues and options". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome 2006
      - Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.
        http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/
        Goodland, R Anhang, J. “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?”
    - - US Methane emissions from livestock and natural gas are nearly equal.
        "Overview of Greenhouse Gases". United States Environmental Protection Agency.