But stabilizing the effects of our unsustainable fossil fuel consumption requires more than high-risk technologies.

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However, given the current lack of a viable, affordable electric car, Chinese fossil fuel consumption is expected to continue to rise.

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The use of renewable energy sources will decrease the Army's fossil fuel consumption, while lowering greenhouse gas emissions and creating a more assured energy supply.

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Non-fossil fuel consumption, on the other hand increased about 2 percent.

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Fossil fuel consumption rose about half a quad a year.

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And we believe that the cost of economic dislocations, particularly in developing countries, from limiting fossil fuel consumption will be far worse than from merely adapting to a one degree change.

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Urban agriculture has enormous potential: It can theoretically feed far more people in a healthier manner, while simultaneously reducing fossil fuel consumption, but it also faces enormous obstacles (technical, economic, social).

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Until there is a price on carbon, along with other clean energy policies, these profits will likely continue, fossil fuel consumption will keep rising and clean energy will struggle to compete on an uneven playing field.

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Study after study has pegged energy efficiency as the lowest-cost way to curb fossil-fuel consumption and the resulting greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Coal is the third most consumed fossil fuel and will represent 28% of the world's energy consumption by 2035, according to a report by the Department of Energy.

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