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Fossil fuels are the main source of energy around the world today. In some countries, the use of alternative sources of energy is replacing fossil fuels. Is this a positive or negative development?

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Technological development is progressing every year, and it requires more and more
energy
. Fossil
fuels
is
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 an immense part of obtaining
energy
 for different purposes.
However
,
this
energy
 source leads to an abrupt increase in ecological problems. So in some
countries
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,countries
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 fossil
fuels
 are replaced by more ecological
sources
, and I believe that it is an extremely positive development. Alternative
sources
 of
energy
 are gaining popularity in different
countries
 for some distinctive reasons.
Firstly
, using fossil
fuels
 as an
energy
 source has an alarming increase
of
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 people’s concerns, because of huge environmental pollution. Traffic fumes
leads
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 to ozone layer depletion, mining of fossil
fuels
 is a strongly pollutive process, and people, who live in these places, are suffering from a considerable number of different diseases. It means that we need
a
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less harmful environmental
energy
sources
.
For instance
, gas and electrical
sources
 are becoming more popular in a lot of
countries
, because of their more ecological safety.
Secondly
, extractive sites have a limited amount of fossil
fuels
, so once upon a time we can have no
sources
 of
energy
.
Thus
, it means that we should think about their replacement.
An electricity
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 seems to be a great impact on using different technologies
,
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 because obtaining electricity is
less
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a less
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 expensive and less difficult process.
Besides
, using
electrical
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an electrical
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 source of
energy
 doesn’t have
such
 a destructive effect
for
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on
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 our environment.
To sum up
, I want to say that replacing fossil
fuels
 with alternative
energy
 is a positive development for
botn
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both
 people and
environment
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the environment
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, and it is important to expand understanding of that replacement to different
countries
.
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