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As global climate has changed progressively over the past several decades, it has collided with environmental racism.The overlap of these two phenomena, has disproportionately affected different communities and populations throughout the world due to disparities in socio-economic status.
Psychological isolation and compartmentalization – Events of everyday life usually lack an obvious connection to global warming. As such, people compartmentalize their awareness of global warming as abstract knowledge without taking any practical action. Hoexter identifies isolation/compartmentalization as the most common facet of soft denial.
This produces the risk of cultural homogenization due to global adaptation efforts to climate change and the disruption of cultural traditions due to forced relocation. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Countries with lower socio-economic status and minority groups in high socio-economic areas are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis.
Global decimation threat: A plausible and significant contributor to global decimation risk. Endgame territory: Levels of global warming and societal fragility that are judged sufficiently probable to constitute climate change as an extinction threat. Worst-case warming: The highest empirically and theoretically plausible level of global warming.
Human activity since industrialization has led to a huge increase in the production of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to rising global temperatures. Scientists warn that if carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at their current rates, Earth’s temperatures could increase dramatically in future ...
The IPCC's five reasons for concern are: threats to endangered species and unique systems, damages from extreme climate events, effects that fall most heavily on developing countries and the poor within countries, global aggregate impacts (i.e., various measurements of total social, economic and ecological impacts), [2] [3] and large-scale high ...
Just half a degree rise of global warming will triple the size of the area of Earth that is considered to be too hot for humans. The new area will be equivalent to the size of the U.S., according ...
The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2006), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse‐gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the ...