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The future has already arrived in the form of our children. These children are raising their voices all around the world, demanding policy makers and technologists take the necessary steps to secure their futures. This includes utilizing emerging technologies in a way that prioritizes people and planet over power and profits. At a physical level, human well being is critically dependent on environmental sustainability. Beyond questions of happiness or mood, basic human flourishing means having access to potable water and clean air. Our symbiotic relationship with nature, however, has been severely damaged due to actions that have resulted in a climate crisis that, if not immediately addressed, will lead to irreversible ecological and human devastation. A combination of a courageous socioeconomic transformation and accelerated technological innovation is necessary to mitigate this threat. For more information on this and other similar topics, visit https://ethicsinaction.ieee.org/.
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Local discourses around the world draw on multiple resources tomake sense of a “travelling idea” such as climate change, includingdirect experiences of extreme weather, mediated reports, educationalNGO activities, and pre-existing values and belief systems. There is nosimple link between scientific literacy, climate-change awareness, and asustainable lifestyle, but complex entanglements of transnational andlocal discourses and of scientific and other (religious, moral etc.) ways ofmaking sense of climate change. As the case studies in this volume show,this entanglement of ways of sense-making results in both localizationsof transnational discourses and the climatization of local discourses:aspects of the travelling idea of climate change are well-received,integrated, transformed, or rejected. Our comparison reveals a majorfactor that shapes the local appropriation of the concept of anthropogenicclimate change: the fit of prior local interpretations, norms and practiceswith travelling ideas influences whether they are likely to be embracedor rejected.
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This book discusses different strategies that can be adopted by agriculture and industry to enhance CO2 sequestration and reduce the impacts of global warming and climate change. Written by researchers from different fields, chapters cover such topics as the management of agricultural systems with the implementation of agronomic practices that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase soil carbon stocks, the technology of adsorption on activated carbon from low-cost raw material, and the effective methods of carbon capture and storage, among others. This volume is a useful reference for the general public, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers who aim to deepen their knowledge of those topics.
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If you listen to the media, you would think that man-made environmental catastrophe was about to engulf the world and imperil civilization. From Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to nightly jeremiads about CO2 emissions and carbon footprints, we are bombarded around the clock with alarmist reports that disasterous global warming is on the rise and that it's our fault. In Climate Confusion, noted climatologist Roy Spencer shows that fears about global warming are vastly exaggerated and are driven by politics, not truth. He shows that a global superstorm has already arrived--but it is a storm of hype and hysteria. Climate Confusion is a ground-breaking book that combines impeccable scientific authority with great wit and literary panache to expose the hysteria surrounding the myths of global warming and climate change. Spencer shows that the earth is far more resilient than exopessimists pretend and that increasing wealth and technology ingenuity, far from being the enemies of the environment, are the only means we possess to solve environmental problems as they arise.--Provided by the publisher.
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Local discourses around the world draw on multiple resources tomake sense of a “travelling idea” such as climate change, includingdirect experiences of extreme weather, mediated reports, educationalNGO activities, and pre-existing values and belief systems. There is nosimple link between scientific literacy, climate-change awareness, and asustainable lifestyle, but complex entanglements of transnational andlocal discourses and of scientific and other (religious, moral etc.) ways ofmaking sense of climate change. As the case studies in this volume show,this entanglement of ways of sense-making results in both localizationsof transnational discourses and the climatization of local discourses:aspects of the travelling idea of climate change are well-received,integrated, transformed, or rejected. Our comparison reveals a majorfactor that shapes the local appropriation of the concept of anthropogenicclimate change: the fit of prior local interpretations, norms and practiceswith travelling ideas influences whether they are likely to be embracedor rejected.
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This book discusses different strategies that can be adopted by agriculture and industry to enhance CO2 sequestration and reduce the impacts of global warming and climate change. Written by researchers from different fields, chapters cover such topics as the management of agricultural systems with the implementation of agronomic practices that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase soil carbon stocks, the technology of adsorption on activated carbon from low-cost raw material, and the effective methods of carbon capture and storage, among others. This volume is a useful reference for the general public, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers who aim to deepen their knowledge of those topics.
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