Guided Course · Lesson 2 of 8
Causes of Global Warming
List the top human causes of greenhouse gas emissions, in order of scale.
List the top human causes of greenhouse gas emissions, in order of scale.
Most human-caused emissions come from burning fossil fuels for electricity, heat and transport. Industry, agriculture & land use, and waste add the rest — roughly in that order of scale.
It isn't just how much we emit, but how fast: humans have added in a little over a century roughly what natural processes used to take millennia to balance.
📝 Worksheet — Lesson 2
(Write 1–5 next to each: Waste, Transport, Electricity & heat, Agriculture & land use, Industry)
Electricity & heat Transport Industry Agriculture & land use Waste
Pick one cause above. Describe one realistic way someone in your own community could help reduce it.