what do you mean by fossil fuel ? why is there a growing global concern about them?
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Fossil fuels are hydro carbons, primarily coal, petroleaum or natural gas formed from the remains of dead plants and animals.
Fossils fuel is a general term for buried combustible geologic deposits of organic materials, from decayed plants and animals that have been coverted to crude oil, coal, natural gas or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earths crust over hundreds of millions of years.
There is a growing global concern about fossil fuels because the burning of fossil by human is the largest source of emissions of carbondioxide, which is ore of the green house gases, which contributes to global warming. Moreover fossil fuels are non-renewable resources and with the increased population and industrialization the demand for energy is rising rapidly