Sentences with phrase «social effects of global warming»

The social effects of global warming will include a spread of infectious disease in some areas and drought and starvation in other areas.

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The effects of global warming are the ecological and social changes caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions of greenhouse gases.
* global warming is not significantly affected by human activity but governments expend resources and disrupt social order and economies to reduce human impact but make no provisions for dealing with the effects of warming.
From hazardous effects causing potential loss of life, injury, or other negative health impacts, to the potential exposure of social, economic, and infrastructure assets to adverse impacts, global warming places vulnerable human lives and systems in dangerous jeopardy.
Presidents from 319 + Universities and Colleges We, the undersigned presidents and chancellors of colleges and universities, are deeply concerned about the unprecedented scale and speed of global warming and its potential for large - scale, adverse health, social, economic and ecological effects.
One thing I would add — it ought to be obvious (and I certainly hope it is) that a process of «winding back and decelerating the present form of capitalism», including «more social democracy, more regulation», will only be effective at mitigating the effect of global warming (partially or wholly), if it includes a large suite of policies specifically aimed at addressing global warming, that is, replacing emissions - producing activities or processes (particularly energy sources) with non emissions - producing ones.
Melbourne About Blog John Englart write on the effects of human induced climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, environmental and social impacts of global warming, and climate protests.
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