The following answers for the Causes and Consequences features are examples and are not intended to represent a comprehensive list. In addition, the sequence of items is not meant to connote relative importance.
Sort the examples below into the appropriate bin.
Causes:
-Fossil fuels are rich in energy
-Fossil fuels are far cheaper than renewables
-Fossil fuel industry receives government subsidies
Consequences:
-Greenhouse emissions spur climate change
-fossil fuel combusiton creates smog
-fossil fuel extraction alters and fragments habitat
Solutions:
-increased research
-inclusion of the environental costs
-a shift of federal subsidies from fossil fuesl to renewables