SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Siq, Natural Disaster, Blue Fin
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Recall the earthquake and tsunami in japan in 2011. The bp oil spill (2010) focused our atenion to industrial catastrophes that threaten our environment; The nuclear accidents that accompanied the earthquake and tsunami in japan are another example of an industrial catastrophe. Even though these catastrophes happen all around around the world, in places far from where we live, they sill impact all of us (industrial contaminaion of our environment) Sydney tar ponds in nova scoia the most hazardous and toxic of environments in na. Climate change: causes, impact, soluions (intergovernmental panel on climate change) climate change and its impact policy measures barriers to implementaion. The chapter gives a detailed discussion of climate change. The chapter looks at projected and anicipated long-term consequences of global change. It talks about the kinds of policy changes that we need to miigate the efects of climate change and those policy measure in this chapter are called adaptaion and miigaion opions .