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Garrett T. Gysel English 1102 Professor Padgett November 26, 2013 Oil, Unfortunately There is no question that oil and fossil-fuels have made our world achieve new heights and make giant strides toward technological advancements but while that is just the cover of the book if you look in between it youll notice that oil has done just as much bad as it has good for our world, from pollution, to depleting the ozone layer, to oil spills, to causing war. If America as a nation, and truly not just us, but the whole world could reduce our dependency on foreign oil and fossil fuels there could be huge benefits. Dependence- the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like. Ever since our world began using oil reliant objects we became dependent on oil and/or fossil-fuels. Oil is also a necessity for our everyday life on planet earth. Without oil we would have nothing. There have been thousands of studies on our reliance for fossil-fuels and just as our population numbers are on the rise, our dependence on fossil-fuels has also been on a steady incline ever since fossil-fuels were discovered. Because of our rise in reliance scientist have made ground-breaking discoveries and innovations to reduce our dependence on oil, such as: electric cars, turbines in dams that water turn to create electricity, solar panels, different renewable energy innovations, and many more. The list can go on and on and little bits at a time we are reducing our dependence on fossil-fuels but the increases in population cancel out any ground-breaks we make in renewable energy/non-fossil-fuels technology. Fossil-fuel control requires solving an international public goods problem as well as an addiction-like problem,

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breaking it will be more challenging. Using insights from the model, it also suggests that fossil fuel addiction, like cigarette addiction, may generate a long period of time in which people express sincere desire to convert to clean energy, but accomplish little to achieve that outcome.(GlobalChange) This source portrays a great analogy of our dependence on fossil-fuels by saying that our dependence on fossil-fuels is the exact same as being addicting to cigarettes. Both are terrible for our atmospheres longevity, and it explains how just like people trying to quit smoking, we are as United Nations trying to cut out our dependence on oil but is very challenging, just like breaking a personal addiction.

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Works Cited (GlobalChange)- Suranovic, S. "Fossil Fuel Addiction and the Implications for Climate Change Policy." Global Environmental Change. 23.3 (2013): 598-608. Print.

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