Another great reason to switch to non-polluting energy sources like fossil fuels is because burning it up is so wasteful of an otherwise great substance. Think of all the great things that oil can be used for other than to burn it.
Plastics - mostly can be replaced with cannabis.
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One of the big reasons for reef die-off is the increased acidity of the oceans that is caused by the increased levels of CO2 that the oceans are huge sink for. I am of the firm belief that the higher CO2 is caused by humans but much of the climate change is the earth doing it's own thing no matter what we do. It was concerns with the hole in the ozone layer when I was back in school in the late 80s taking environmental chemistry that spurred a mostly world wide effort to eliminate the use of
chlorofluorocarbons, (Freon). The hole has been getting smaller each year since.
We need to put that kind of effort into greenhouse gases reduction especially CO2.