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uses of oil, gas, and coal. The graph below shows that while CO2 emissions attributable to forestry
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and other land-use change have remained relatively constant, total emissions attributable to fossil
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fuels have increased dramatically since the 1950s.18
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Figure 2: Total Annual Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Source, 1860–2016:
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As human reliance on fossil fuels for industrial and mechanical processes has
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increased, so too have greenhouse gas emissions, especially of CO2. The Great Acceleration is
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marked by a massive increase in the annual rate of fossil fuel emissions: more than half of all
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cumulative CO2 emissions have occurred since 1988.19 The rate of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels
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and industry, moreover, has increased threefold since the 1960s, and by more than 60% since
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SHER
EDLING LLP
Global Carbon Project, Global Carbon Budget 2017 (Nov. 13, 2017), http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/
carbonbudget/17/files/GCP_CarbonBudget_2017.pdf (citing CDIAC; R.A. Houghton & Alexander A. Nassikas,
Global and Regional Fluxes of Carbon from Land Use and Land Cover Change 1850–2015, 31 GLOBAL BIOCHEMICAL
CYCLES 3, 456 (Feb. 2017)).
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R.J. Andres et al., A synthesis of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion, BIOGEOSCIENCES, 9, 1851
(2012), http://www.biogeosciences.net/9/1845/2012.
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