Due to other environmental practices more related to families or people in general, such as household recycling, carpooling and even the purchase of panels solar panels for a roof, the detrimental damage CO2 emissions caused to the earth's atmosphere are often overlooked. As emissions of carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere, known as CO2 emissions, continue to dominate the world's top environmental concerns, growing efforts have recently resulted in multiple ideas, including those from chemists, professors and global companies. Efforts by this group of people to improve certain methods of energy production such as nuclear power plants offer hope of eventually reducing the planet's high CO2 emissions, thereby seizing rising global temperatures. Proven as a key environmental topic in Thomas Friedman's 205 Easy Ways to Save The Earth, the author spends a lot of time exploring various solutions to the destructively high levels of CO2 emissions and opens up his main argument for tackling CO2 emissions with the universal question: “What exactly should we do to address these emissions?” deploy these existing clean energy technologies and energy efficiency programs – starting today – to make this fundamental impact? (Friedman 275). In response, Friedman presents the work of Robert Socolow and Stephen Palaca, both professors at Princeton who lead the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, “…a consortium that set out to design scalable solutions to the climate problem” (Friedman 276). Socolow and Palaca organize their environmental efforts and solutions in a pie chart or list in 15 sections: Double fuel efficiency on two billion cars and reduce the number of miles driven. Increasing the efficiency of coal-fired power plants and replacing...... middle of paper ...... measures like these are needed to successfully reduce carbon dioxide levels, and if more companies and companies around the world were making these advances, the results could be astonishing. CO2 emission levels will always remain a global environmental concern given the energy needs of today's society, at least in our lifetimes. Various ideas have been put forward by those who truly know the danger that CO2 emissions pose to the Earth. Is Socolow and Palaca's 15-section pie chart the answer, is Lewis's concept the key, or will it take a combination of all efforts to solve this environmental crisis? We'll never know until full-scale execution is in place. One thing is certain, as we continue to advance technologically, culturally and globally, we must take responsibility for the past and present, or pay the consequences in the future..