1 uses of oil, gas, and coal. The graph below shows that while CO2 emissions attributable to forestry 2 and other land-use change have remained relatively constant, total emissions attributable to fossil 3 fuels have increased dramatically since the 1950s.18 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Figure 2: Total Annual Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Source, 1860–2016: 19 53. 20 As human reliance on fossil fuels for industrial and mechanical processes has 21 increased, so too have greenhouse gas emissions, especially of CO2. The Great Acceleration is 22 marked by a massive increase in the annual rate of fossil fuel emissions: more than half of all 23 cumulative CO2 emissions have occurred since 1988.19 The rate of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels 24 and industry, moreover, has increased threefold since the 1960s, and by more than 60% since 25 18 26 27 28 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)). 19 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. COMPLAINT 29

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