What Is Climate Change Doing to Us and for Us?
What are we doing to our climate? Emissions from fossil fuel burning have raised carbon dioxide concentrations 35 percent higher than in the past millions of years. This increase is warming our planet via the greenhouse effect. What is climate change doing to and for us? Dry regions are drier and we...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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Zygon
Jahr: 2018, Band: 53, Heft: 2, Seiten: 443-461 |
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Klimaänderung
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RelBib Classification: | AA Religionswissenschaft NCG Ökologische Ethik; Schöpfungsethik |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
carbon dioxide
B Climate Change B fossil fuel burning B Globalization B greenhouse effect B rising seas B Environment B weather extremes B Global warming B green energy |
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Zusammenfassung: | What are we doing to our climate? Emissions from fossil fuel burning have raised carbon dioxide concentrations 35 percent higher than in the past millions of years. This increase is warming our planet via the greenhouse effect. What is climate change doing to and for us? Dry regions are drier and wet ones wetter. Wildfires have increased threefold, hurricanes more violent, floods setting record heights, glaciers melting, and seas rising. Parts of Earth are increasingly uninhabitable. Climate change requires us to act as a global community. Climate justice enjoins emitters to pay the social-environmental costs of fossil fuel burning. This would expedite green solar, wind, and next-generation nuclear energy sources. Individuals should conserve resources, waste less food, and eat a plant-rich diet. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12410 |