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Coping With Global Warming

Name: Coping With Global Warming
Creator: Jan-Erik Lane
Keywords: global warming as social change, resilience, energy and emissions, environmental refugees, ecological damages, life style

Jan-Erik Lane;

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Published: 08 Jul 2015 Journal: Applied Economics and Finance, volume 2 (issn: 2332-7294, eissn: 2332-7308,

Publisher: Redfame Publishing

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The process of globalization that has framed developments in the societies on Planet Earth the last decades will be supplanted by the climate change process, which no country can evade. It amounts to a set of giant forces shaping the environment, the economies and the politics of the world. It is somehow believed that the process of change can be controlled by halting the increase in greenhouse gases so that average global temperature would only augment by 2 degrees. This is a dire illusion, fed by the promises of many governments to do something about the energy emissions ¨C in the future! Global warming is now, driven by the most powerful forces, namely the li...

doi: 10.11114/aef.v2i3.937 , 10.4324/9781351179706-4

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free text keywords: global warming as social change, resilience, energy and emissions, environmental refugees, ecological damages, life style, Economic growth, Global warming, Greenhouse gas, Economics, Carbon neutrality, Global temperature, Market economy, Psychological resilience, media_common.quotation_subject, media_common, Climate change, China, Globalization, jel:R00, jel:Z0

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