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6.4 Acid Deposition - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Reduce overall demand for electricity
      - Use low sulphur fuels, remove sulphur before burning, or burn mixed with limestone
      - Replace fossil fuels by using alternatives: ethanol to run cars, renewable energy sources for electricity
      - Use less private transport: car pool, public transport, walk, cycle
    - - Reduce CO2 emissions but we live in a fossil fuel reliant economy
      - Demand for power is ever increasing in India and China as they indutrialize
  - - - Recolonize damaged areas
      - Limiting forestry plantations (trees acidify soils as they remove nutrients)
      - International agreements
      - Liming acidified lakes and rivers
    - - Effective in restoring pH but has to be repeated regularly. Costly.
      - Affects biodiversity in other ways
      - Treats symptoms and not the cause
      - Agreements are difficult to establish and to monitor