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• Nine of the fifteen top world oil exporters are listed as not free, measured by their restriction of political rights, civil liberties, and freedom of expression for their citizens.  Another three on the same list are listed as only partly free.
  Freedom in the World Report, 2007

• According to retired military leaders, climate change is expected to cause increased global conflict, including wars over water, increased hunger, instability from worsening disease and rising sea levels, and global warming-induced refugees.
  national security and the threat of climate change report

• The 29 million gallons of petroleum that enters North American ocean waters each year as a result of human activities comes from land-based runoff, polluted rivers, airplanes, and small boats and jet skis, while less than eight percent comes from tanker or pipeline spills.
  national academy of sciences

• Benzene, which occurs naturally in crude oil is carcinogenic to humans and there is no known safe threshold level.
  World Health Organization air quality guidelines

• Many of the new technologies that harness renewable energy, including wind, solar, geothermal, and bio-power, are, or soon will be, economically competitive with the fossil fuels that meet 85 percent of the U.S. energy needs.
  Environmental and Energy Study Institute

• A new national report finds that building "green" would save an average school $100,000 each year - enough to hire two new additional full-time teachers.
  U.S. Green building council

• In a warming climate, more water will fall as rain than currently falls as snow, leaving communities who currently rely on a long, slow snow-melt for summer’s water supply, such as those in the North American West, to face shortages.
  u.s. department of state

• A recent study concludes that climate change could drive a million of the world's species, or a quarter of animals and plants living on the land, into extinction as soon as 2050.  The United Nations says the prospect is also a threat to the billions of people who rely on nature for their survival.
  bbc news

FUSE suggests the following steps as an example of the simple ways that we can have a direct impact on the world's most pressing issues. FUSE believes in addressing these issues through a Sustainable Energy Strategy that combines education, community action, personal conservation practices, investment in renewable and alternative energy, purchase of carbon offsets, and legislative advocacy. The following sections provide a sample of what such a strategy would include.

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