CO2 Emissions & Pollution — Why Cleantech is Important (Infographic)

September 19th, 2011 by Zachary Shahan

Cleantech is important for job creation as well now, but it’s the economic, health, and quality of life costs associated with CO2 and other pollution that is really driving this extremely fast-growing market. We didn’t realize for a long time, and we tried to deny it after that (and many still do), but the health and ecological costs of traditional fossil fuel energy and dirty tech are tremendous. What we think we save in ‘cheap energy’ is actually much less than what we pay for in reduced health and critical damage to important ecological systems and services.

Global warming gets most of the attention, for good reason (the effects of global warming are tremendous), but the costs of dirty energy and dirty tech go far beyond the effects of global warming. Check out this infographic below for more on CO2 emissions, other pollution, and some of the effects of common types of pollution (CLICK TO ENLARGE):

Infographic created by Reuse this Bag, which, believe it or not, produces reusable bags.











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