and New York City alone wasted 600 million gallons of gas annually while just sitting in traffic, which translates to about 7.5 million tons of carbon dioxide in just those two cities. After carbon emissions are caused by humans, deforestation is the second principal cause of atmospheric carbon dioxide. According to the NASA Web Site, deforestation is responsible for 25 percent of all carbon emissions entering the atmosphere, by burning and cutting about 34 million acres of trees each year. We are losing millions of acres of rainforests each year, the equivalent in the area to the size of Italy. The destroying of tropical forests alone is throwing hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide into
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