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Fossil fuels are compounds of hydrogen and carbon, such as oil, coal, natural gas, which are produced out of organic remains from ancient organisms. They cause pollution by releasing unsafe compounds in the atmosphere by its combustion process. A complete combustion means the hydrocarbon burns in an air with more than enough oxygen to turn the carbon into carbon dioxide.

There is also an incomplete combustion, meaning it is burned in an air lacking oxygen. If the oxygen is not enough, the carbons turn to carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is very harmful to living organisms.

The increasing of global emission of CO2, a heat trapping gas is pushing the world into a crisis. CO2 or carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere, which causes our world to have higher temperature. Seeing that the amount of burning fossil fuels gets bigger year by year, the global average temperature has also risen 1.4°F or 0.8°C. It can also lead to environmental such as mean health problems, destruction of problems, decreasing water and land pollution, etc. Moreover, as the ocean is affected by the carbon emissions, the ocean water becomes more acidic which causes loss of fish and other living organisms in the aquatic ecosystem and weakens the oceanic food chain. Furthermore, higher temperature causes heat and drought that damages the farms and ranches. If this keeps going on, the percentage of productivity and the yields of agricultural products will lessen since harvesting becomes hard when the land is in drought. By this, the price of commodity will also rise because of the declining yields of food crops, which would disadvantage the community. Other than that, because of CO2, it will cause melting ice and one of it is artic sea ice that begins...

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