SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Gaia Hypothesis, Keystone Pipeline, Execution Unit
4 Dec 2017
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Climate change is the greatest challenge to development. Ssa, mena, south and southeast asia face the prospect of megadroughts, mass starvation/famine/food shortages, water crises, and catastrophic flooding driven by climate change. Future warfare over access to water and food rather than oil. National defense and intelligence agencies are already creating strategic plans for likely outcomes such as: hundreds of thousands of refugees (conflict and climate refugees), the spread of contagious diseases, and, vast infrastructure damage. Carbon emissions in 2013 were 61 percent higher than in 1990. The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is now 40 percent higher than it has ever been in the last 800,000 years. Northern states representing 20 percent of the world"s population are responsible for about 70 percent of all greenhouse gas (ghg) pollution. Southern states (with the least resources) experience the vast majority of natural disasters from hydro-meteorological events. Our shared atmospheric commons has become a free-waste sink.
