The state of Georgia is located in the Deep South of the United States, on the East Coast, and has almost ten million residents. Atlanta is its core metropolitan region, capital and most populous city both. Almost three per cent water, Georgia is made up of mineral ridges and river valleys. Freshwater river fishing, woodland deer, snakes and marine life seafood make Georgia a land rich in wildlife diversity. Yet Atlanta is one of the worst ozone-polluted cities in the United States.
Georgia was made famous in Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With The Wind”, yet today is one of the fastest growing states with explosively expanding metro areas. Agriculture, dairy farming, industry, and cattle and tobacco reign among multiple consumer product manufacturing streams. Media channels like television and radio broadcast from Atlanta. Timber and granite join corporate commerce and military installations in keeping Georgia thriving. Coal-dependent for fuel, alternate sources of energy are nuclear energy, oil and natural gas.
Georgia earns a $396 billion gross product, yet consumers a huge amount of energy to do so. A concentration of Fortune 500 companies as well as industrialized sectors and rapid growth are testing the long term abilities of Georgia to sustain energy needs. If Georgia’s companies could use alternate power or operate more sustainably, a significant savings in nonrenewable coal energy might be reached. Hydroelectric and wind turbine power(geothermal) energy production is sustainably recommended.
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