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Climate Change: Presenter: Professor Jon Barnett
Climate Change: Presenter: Professor Jon Barnett
Climate Change is a Social Problem: Because human activities produce the emissions that enhance the greenhouse gas effect.
Climate Change is a Social Problem: Because responding to climate change requires social changes. To reduce emissions To adapt to avoid damages arising from changes in climate, and To both mitigate and adapt in ways that are socially just
Thinking more about risks: Climate change may impact on the things that are needed for people to live good lives.
Conclusion: Climate change is not an environmental problem, it is a social problem (but with environmental elements)