Most of the Americans I meet don’t realize that their iPhone runs off of fossil fuel. When you charge your laptop or phone, you pull electrical current out of the wall, and that current was more than likely generated by a coal-burning power plant located on the outskirts of town. Your refrigerator, toaster, and television, and all the electric lights in your house, work this same way, and it’s most often the case that they all go back to the burning of fossil fuels, as does the electricity that lights your school, hospital, and workplace and also powers the machines within them. This is true
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