Emissions from the tailpipe of the car in front of you, smoke dispersing from a smokestack and
             forming a black haze around the horizon, or the strange black tint in the water left over from
             an oil spill years ago. These are all types of pollution and are all caused by one common
             entity: fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are fuels created naturally within the Earth. Whether by
             adding to the greenhouse effect, reshaping a landscape during a mining operation, or simply
             blowing smoke in someone's face, these familiar sources of energy have an undeniably profound
             Fossil fuels are the most widely used source of energy throughout the modern world. In the
             United States alone, they account for over eighty-five percent of energy consumption. It is
             often overlooked, however, that they are not only the cause of economic and political
             instability but also account for almost all of the world's pollution, including chemicals
             attributed to global warming. Alternative energy production methods must be discovered and
             developed to replace this unclean and insecure source of power. Devices such as wind power
             plants, solar power plants, and other renewable energy harnessing facilities, facilities with
             unlimited resources, are just as effective as fossil fuels while being free of the negative side
             Many unfavorable global issues are caused by the world's number one source of power, fossil
             fuels. The process of harnessing energy from many fossil fuels produces negative effects in the
             environment. Most notably, burning coal and oil releases a hazardous byproduct, carbon dioxide.
             The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased over nine percent since the 1960s.
             (Brown 1994, [n.p.]) Carbon dioxide is one of the main catalysts of the greenhouse effect, the
             source of global warming. According to a researcher from the Italian Commission for Nuclear and
             Alternative Energy Sources, Heinz Knoe...