Oklahoma Rising, sung by Vince Gill. Ottawa County, created in 1907 from the Cherokee Nation is in the extreme northeastern county of Oklahoma, bordering Kansas and Missouri. The county was named for the Ottawa Indians, but comes from the Algonquian term adawe, meaning to buy and sell or trade and traffic.
Yet fossil fuels are finite resources and they can also irreparably harm the environment. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the burning of fossil fuels was responsible for 79 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2010.These gases insulate the planet, and could lead to potentially catastrophic changes in the earthâs climate.echnologies such as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) may help reduce the greenhouse gas emissions generated by fossil fuels, and nuclear energy can be a zero-carbon alternative for electricity generation. But other, more sustainable solutions exist: energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Burning fossil fuels puts carbon into the atmosphere. Other smaller sources include industrial processes such as cement manufacture and natural gas flaring.Fossil fuels provide most of the energy that supports human transportation, electricity production, heating and cooling of buildings, and industrial activity.Oil used to be the dominant fossil fuel, but as of 2008, coal is dominant (40% to oilâs 37%).he Future of Fossil Fuels. The future of anthropogenic fossil fuel use depends on human decisions about energy use at the international scale. If we collectively choose to depend more and more on fossil fuels, our emissions will increase.