If not, is it something that is a factor in the environment of the post-industrial era, where out-gassing plastics and other factors are part of our daily lives?
Carbon dioxide emissions come from energy use, and energy is the key factor that makes modern economies so much more productive than pre-industrial societies.
John Gennard, a professor of industrial relations at Strathclyde University, reckons that low unemployment in the 1970s was a bigger factor in strengthening unions.
Commercial and domestic combustion or burning was the next biggest contributing factor at 21% followed by power generation at 17.4% and industrial combustion at 17.3%.