An average car emits 650g of COâ‚‚ per km driven. An average person travels 25km to get to work each day. Commuting by car emits an average of 32.5kg of COâ‚‚ daily. (Based on data from the US.)
An adult tree absorbs up to 21.8kg of COâ‚‚ per year. It would take one tree 1.5 years to absorb what one person can emit in a single day.
In the US alone, over 6 million more cars are registered annually. Each year we destroy 18.7 million acres of forest worldwide, killing roughly 1.1 billion trees.
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