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To promote pollution prevention, the United States Congress passed the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. [7] Congress declared that pollution should be prevented and reduced wherever possible; in addition, any waste that must be released into the environment must be done in a responsible, environmentally-conscious manner.
The world needs to accelerate the development of technology that helps to resolve the climate change problem. [4] The world needs to reduce the additional cost of green energy, which he refers to as the "green premium". [5] Federal, state and local governments can play a role to reduce emissions; in addition to private citizens. [6]
Climate change mitigation policies can have a large and complex impact on the socio-economic status of individuals and countries This can be both positive and negative. [299] It is important to design policies well and make them inclusive. Otherwise climate change mitigation measures can impose higher financial costs on poor households. [300]
Climate change can also be used more broadly to include changes to the climate that have happened throughout Earth's history. [32] Global warming—used as early as 1975 [33] —became the more popular term after NASA climate scientist James Hansen used it in his 1988 testimony in the U.S. Senate. [34] Since the 2000s, climate change has ...
Individual action on climate change describes the personal choices that everyone can make to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of their lifestyles and catalyze climate action. These actions can focus directly on how choices create emissions, such as reducing consumption of meat or flying, or can be more focus on inviting political action on ...
In 2005, economic losses (mainly from air pollution) were calculated at 7.7% of China's GDP. This grew to 10.3% by 2002 and the economic loss from water pollution (6.1%) began to exceed that caused by air pollution. [18] China has been one of the top performing countries in terms of GDP growth (9.64% in the past ten years). [18]
Overall, the effects of climate change increase stress on ecosystems, and species unable to cope with the rapidly changing conditions will go extinct. [28] While modern climate change is caused by humans, past climate change events occurred naturally and have led to extinctions.
Climate change: ISBN 1-920885-84-6: The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes From a Climate-Changed Planet: Heidi Cullen: 2010: Climate change: ISBN 978-0-06-172688-0: Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba: Shannon Stunden Bower: 2011 Agriculture, environmental history ISBN 9780774818520