A plan to keep Carbon in Check.

A: List the major ideas, concepts or key points- point by point

Global warming are driving companies and governments to work toward an unprecedented
change in the historical pattern of fossil-fuel use.
Today the worlds coal, oil and natural gas indus- tries dig up and pump out about seven billion
tons of carbon a year.
Emissions rate continues to grow at the pace of the past 30 years for the next 50 years, reaching
14 billion tons of carbon a year in 2056.
Dramatic changes are plausible over the next 50 years because so much of the energy canvas is
still blank.
If their average fuel efficiency were 30 mpg, their tailpipes would spew two billion tons of
carbon that year.
Holding carbon dioxide emissions constant for 50 years, without choking off economic growth,
is within our grasp.
39 percent U.S. share of global carbon emissions in 1952.
23 percent U.S. share in 2002.
The U.S. share of global emissions can be expected to continue to drop.
Nuclear power is probably the most controversial of all the wedge strategies.
Sources of the low-carbon electricity could include wind, nuclear power, or coal with capture
and storage.
Not all wedges involve new energy technology. If all the farmers in the world practiced no-till
agriculture rather than conventional plowing, they would con- tribute a wedge.



B: Summarize the AUTHORs main point or idea- at LEAST 1-2 paragraphs
Today the worlds coal, oil and natural gas indus- tries dig up and pump out about seven billion
tons of carbon a year, and society burns nearly all of it, releasing carbon dioxide (CO2).
Dramatic changes are plausible over the next 50 years because so much of the energy canvas is
still blank. The worlds roads in 2056, each driven an average of 10,000 miles a year. If their
average fuel efficiency were 30 mpg, their tailpipes would spew two billion tons of carbon that
year. Achieve one wedge, utilities need to equip 800 large coal plants to capture and store nearly
all the CO2. Sources of the low-carbon electricity could include wind, nuclear power, or coal
with capture and storage. Oil accounted for 43 percent of glob- al carbon emissions from fossil
fuels in 2002, while coal accounted for 37 per- cent; natural gas made up the remainder.
Humanity will have learned to address its collective destiny.

C: Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic, using
specific citations from the article to support your views.

More Car out there and people are expecting to things to be the same. Things cant be the
same way they were before, the more we want the more damage we do the to the earth
ecosystem. In this case we are affecting everything. We are talking about global warming, the


increase of car and burning fossil fuel is increase the amount of Co2 in the atmosphere. This
article made me realized that the future we thought we would have might change. This is bad,
and I dont like it but as I said, theres not much we can do to change whats done already. This
is shocking and scary, it makes me angry we want more but look at how things are going.
Theres also more heat, the temperate raising, things need to change. I dont like the heat, its too
hot.


What?

Burning Fossil is increasing the amount of
Fossil Fuels, this is affecting global warming.
The levels of Co2 have bee increasing for the
past years.
Says who?

ROBERT H. SOCOLOW AND STEPHEN
W. PACALA
What if?

We could reduce the amount of Co2 that goes
to the atmosphere, this could solve the
problem with global warming. This could lead
to a better future.
What does it reminds you of?

The article about food, we waste too much. In
this case is almost the same we used too much.
In both cases the amount of resources that we
need is affecting the environment. We need to
reduce and think more about what we are
doing.