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Its an advantage to prevent car usage because the smog is clearing in these cities.
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millions of Colombians hiked, walked and did many other activities without touching a car to prevent the smog
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These cities are working together to make the world a better place. "In a program that set's to spread to toher countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday"(Andrew Selsky, paragraph 20). The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog, a...
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there are benefits without a car. Benefits for the world around us, and well you might get some stress out if you start walking, hiking, or riding bycicles for a while. It's incredible just to think of the idea that many countries have stopped driving for a day to make their country or city a better place. While in cit...
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Limiting car usage has lots of important advantages
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lower harmful greenhouse gas levels,
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reduce smog,
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improve our environment and society
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, cars cause a lot of the problems we are having with harmful greenhouse gas.
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"Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emmissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." (Paragraph 5, Source 1) Greenhouse gas emmisions are extremely harmful to the atmosphere. The greenhouse gases harm the earth's atmoshphere and we as humans, ...
Evidence
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cars cause smog
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Smog is extremely harmful to breathe in and is also bad for the environment. For example, in Paris, France, the government enforced a driving ban to alleviate the thick smog. After a few days of less cars on the road, the smog cleared up! (Source 2) This proves that if we didn't have cars in the cities that have smog s...
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Evidence 2
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it will improve the environment and society.
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"Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth, sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramtically cut traffic; and new restaraunts and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." (Source 3) This shows that by reducing car usage, it has hel...
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All in all, I strongly believe that by reducing car usage, we can make the world a better place. By doing so, we can limit harmful green house gas, reduce smog, and change society for the better. These are only a few of the advantages of limiting car usage but you can already see why it is such a good idea. I hope you...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Limiting car usage is not an everyday thing everybody sees, basically almost everybody in the world owns and drive a car ,or any type of a motorized vehicle.
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There is no need to freak out of limiting the usage of cars other countries do it and its working quite well
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for the people of Vauban, Germany, In Vauban vehicles, street parking, and home garages are forbidden on the district, car ownership is allowed though but there are only allowed to park at the large garages at the edge of development where the car owner buys a space for $40,00. 70% of Vauban's families do not own cars,...
Evidence
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6F67FFCB065A
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most people of the community are more happier and less tensed since moving to Vauban
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6F67FFCB065A
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In the romantic city of Paris, France air has become filled with smog so the city of Paris bans driving if there was any violaters they'll be fined for 22 euros, but it had a good outcome; congestion ,or car traffic, was down by 60% in the capital of France and the city's smog has been cleared enough that the French p...
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In Bogota,Columbia there is the annual car-free day that basically bans the usage of car in the streets of Bogota, the goal is the same as Paris:
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reduce smog.
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In the good ol'USA Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fwer licenses as each year goes by, which is leaving researchers a question: is America passing it's peak driving? Rates of car ownership is starting to come down if the pattern keeps going  it'll have beneficial implications for carbon emis...
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Limiting car usage aint that bad its a good opportunity to take away stress from driving and lowering air pollution. Who knows, probably next week there might be a car-free, or car-ban day and hopefully people will see the much appreciated benefits from it.  
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Cars and other transportation vehicles are responsible for most of the world polution
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it's also responsible for obeasity and overweight
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Because of cars and other vehicles people dont walk or ride bikes ot run anymore because they have a car to take them wherever they want
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When I had a car I was always tense
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I'm much happier this way said Heidrun Walter a media trainer and mother of two.
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Huge impediment to current efforts to drostically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes passenger cars are esponsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission in Europe precepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation Stores are...
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"'All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change,'said David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America.."(para.7).
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There's so many advantages if we limit care usage.
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more money saved
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more space
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pollution
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no traffic.
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To start off, in the article"In German suburb, life goes on without cars", by Elisabeth Rosenthal,it states "car ownership is allowed but there are only two places to park-large garages at the edge of development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home." (para2) in other words its expensive. The...
Evidence
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. In paragraph 5 more reasons come up. "...is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes....Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States."
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One of many causes of greeenhouse gas is cars.
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Next, "in previous bills, 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highays and only 20 percent to other transport."(para9)which means that its expensive
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most of this things money is wasted on is things that cars need.
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To continue, the author, Robert Duffer, of "Paris bans driving due to smog", he states "after days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city."(para. 10
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this tells us that cars are dameging the air we breath.
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Smog gets around fast,"Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France,after five-days of intensifying smog...[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world."(para 14)
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To add on, Andrew Selsky which wrote,"Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota", says "...leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams"(para20) basically theres traffic. In paragraph 24, "' It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,' said businessman Carlos A...
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now you can get to your places faster with no traffic and its a smoth trip and good for business.
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Furthermore, Elisabeth Rosenthal writes in her article, "the end of car culture" some advantages. "president Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get fortuitour assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are...
Evidence
Evidence 7
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96948C0AFC15
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In other words not many people are driving anymore its not "cool" anymore ,if you dont drive you'll fit in more.
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Claim 9
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To summarize,there are so many advantages if you limit car use, such as money saved,more space in the streets,and help keep our air clean.
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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A world without cars. Around the world many places have decreased in the use of motorized vehicles. Wether it be government inforced or not vehicle useage has dropped a staggering amount in the past few years. This new habbit has had many effect on the environment, car industries, and even the way cities are built. Wha...
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82856A9600F1
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It says in "The End of Car Culture", "...transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants.
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if the use of cars decre4ases as it has then carbon emmisions will also decrease along with it and will in turn cause the greenhouse effect to ripidly slow.
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Claim 1
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82856A9600F1
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Evn though we would all love the world to be "greenhouse free" it is still quite far away, one thing thats this decrease in vehicles is effecting is Motor Companies.
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82856A9600F1
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The decrease in sales has caused major car companies such as Ford and Mercedes to, "rebrand themselves mobility companies with broader product raange beyond the personal vehicle. One example of this happinging is shown in soure 4: "Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Motor Companu, laid out a bussiness worl plann...
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this recently discovered trend has caused major companies to resolve into making almost entirely new products.
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The worl is slowly but surely loosing the desire for personal vehicles and it has many positive effects
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ut it also has plenty of counter, negative, effects. They always has said "no good deed goes unpunished", all we can do is sit back and see what happens.  
Concluding Statement
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Humans almost feel the need to own a car almost as much as they feel the need to own a phone.  The automobile industry has been a growing industry since World War 2. 
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There are so many advantages to limiting car usage. 
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Saving on gas and getting good exercise are just a few of the great advantages of limiting car usage.
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Vauban, Germany understands that according to Source 1 which talks about how they have given up their cars!  Not only is it saving them a ton of money on gas, car insurance, car payments, and fixing parts, it also gives them all great exercise.  If everyone walks everywhere everyday the whole city will be fit in no tim...
Evidence
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Another advantage to the loss of cars, no car accidents. 
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180,000 people die a year due to car accidents.  The death's in this city will be reduced drastically due to no cars.  This no car movement is a growing trend in Europe, the United States and elsewhere as a component of a movement called "smart planning".
Evidence
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Source 2 talks about how Paris has banned driving due to smog.  Congestion went down 60 percent in the capital of France.  Delivery companies in Paris complained of lost revenue, while exceptions were made for plug-in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers
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The advantages of limiting car usage here is the you'd never have to worry about there being smog outside or snow etc. 
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Limiting car usage, you wouldn't have to worry about the weather being so terrible that you can't drive in smog or heavy rain and have a car accident.
Evidence
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081E861C5EE8
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Bogota, Colombia joins the no car movement for what is known as "Car-Free Day".  Source 3 discusses the day without cars in Bogota, Colombia.  It is an improvement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s.  It's seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most of any Latin American city, according to...
Evidence
Evidence 5
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081E861C5EE8
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Limiting car usage in this city could be great for a lot of reasons. 
Claim
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One being they are the only Latin-American city to have covered 118 miles of bicycle paths.  Their parks and sports centers are now blooming throughout the city.  It's uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks.
Evidence
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Source 4 talks about the End of Car Culture.  Studies have shown that as the years go on, driving is becoming less and less popular which is sad for many automobile industries worldwide.  In America, the partial cause of the decrease in car usage is the unemployment rate being so low, it's not like someone has to go to...
Evidence
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081E861C5EE8
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  Riding a bicycle is beneficial for more money in your pocket and more healthiness for your body.
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Since World War II we have been heavily dependent on the modern day transpotation: the car. Some say the car is an innovative and convienent method of transportation, while others say that it will be the end of the environment.
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there are advantages to limiting car usage.
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Dissenters of the idea claim to say that limiting car usage will negatively impact the car industry,
Counterclaim
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but it doesn't.
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Limiting car usage doesn't mean that people will have to stop buying cars; it simply means that they will have to find a different method of transporation. Source 2 says that in Paris on certain days motorist, who had an odd or even license plate number, had to leave their cars at home and find an alternative method of...
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Limiting car usage does not affect car companies, but instead supports it.
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The limitation of car usage betters the environment.
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Cars emit greenhouse gases in the atmosphere faster than they can be removed. This causes health problems in living organisms and pollution of ecosystems. Cars are liable for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and 50 percent in areas in the U.S. as Source 1 states. People are playing with the balance of ...
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The limiting of cars also boosts community wellness.
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The people who experienced this regulation had positive views on the matter and even on rainy days they participated! Bogota, Colombia has gone into its third year of banning cars and the turnouts of the pariticipation were large, with two other Colombian cities joining and municipal authorities from other countries to...
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In summation, the limitation of car usage doesn't negatively impact car companies, but instead increases hybrid car sale revenue, echances community wellness, betters the environment. The things that can be accomplished with this regulation only has benefits for everyone. With this in mind, why not implement this ideal...
Concluding Statement
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Limiting car usage isnt such a bad idea.
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it helps keep a friendly enviroment,
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it also saves money
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time for people to get to know eachother and talk a little more.
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Claim 3
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To begin with, limiting car usage would help keep a healthy, clean enviroment
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Claim 4
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In the article, 'In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars' Elisabeth Rosenthal states that "the Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting car reduced communtities, and legislatures are starting to act, if cautiously." Which shows that less car usage would help protect our enviroment. Not only the enviromental age...
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Secondly, limiting car usage would would save money and gas
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Claim 5
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In the article, 'Paris bans driving due to smog' Robert Duffer says that "almost 4,000 drivers were fined-diesles make up 67 percent of vehicles in France." We all know diesles an expensive gas, that more than half of France has to pay for just to get from place to place. It also proves that reckless driving and smog ...
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Lastly, reduced driving can help people within the same community, get to know eachother better because your either riding around on a bike or walking, giving you the chance to associate with your neighborhood friends.
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As stated in the article 'Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota' , "parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven pitted sidewalks; rush hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new resteraunts and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." which shows that driving had...
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In conclusion, thats why limiting car usage would have a good affect on our communities and a good affect on th ewhole world in general, because it helps keep a friendly enviroment, and it saves money and time for family and friends.
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Having a day where driving cars is banned instead of having traffic on the roads. Many countries including the United States are banning cars for a day or forever is becoming a new trend
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The reasons that countries are doing this is so they clean up the air because the greenhouse gases have been a problem for the past couple years.
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In Vauban, Germany the advantages of limiting car usage has been great for the suburban community. In souce 1 one of the residents said "when i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way." So having only walking and using bicycles as transport the residents are better off without cars. Even in Paris they s...
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Bogota, Colombia millions of the people during a car free day hike, bike, skate, or use the bus to get to work. They wanted to promote alternative transportation to reduce smog. "It's a good a opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said carlos Arturo. Even Colombia's two other cities, Cali and Valled...
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A5DEB6E371EB
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There has been a major awareness of the effects that cars have on us as a means of transportation. People question whether or not abandoning cars as our primary use of transportation is worth the health of the environment. The simple answer to that is obvious, there would be no awareness, no statistics, no movements to...
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The one major thing that has caught everyone's attention is that the health of our environment being negatively impacted by the use of cars everyday
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This is because this is the problem that should catch everyone's attention. People have this false notion that we wont see any environmental changes in our lifetime, so this means we dont have to worry  about this now. The problems that we predicted would occur have been occuring over the past few years. A prime exampl...
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