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Questions & Answers About Our Environment
Dear EarthTalk: What can I do, as just one individual, to help curb global warming?
— Karen Cross, via e-mail
Most of our own direct contributions to global warming pertain to the modes of travel we choose. For starters, air travel burns more fossil fuels per person than any other form of transport. So if you can opt for other forms of long-distance travel, you can reduce your contribution of greenhouse gases significantly:—provided, of Course, that at least a planeload of others are doing the same.
The other main offender in the transportation arena is the private automobile. Drivihg less frequently, car
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