3 Tips For Furthering a Grassroots Environmentalist Movement If you’re part of a grassroots movement to educate people about preserving the environment, you’re probably using social media to reach as many people as possible. While social media is a fantastic resource for raising awareness, the effects can be fleeting if your efforts aren’t backed by…
No one knows the implications of global warming for sure. Global warming could lead to significantly raised sea levels, and flooding of some areas or even whole countries. Global warming could also lead to more significant weather extremes (storms and droughts). These outcomes could occur within our lifetimes. They could be happening already. Recent weather…
What is Climate Change? “Climate Change” is a general term used when referring to a wide range of effects brought about by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and “heat island effects” resulting from buildings and pavement in the major human settlements. Here is some of the facts you can learn all about…
Publication date: 2007-06-01 First published in: Review of Radical Political Economics Authors: F. Curtis Abstract: This article argues that economic globalization may be undermined by predicted impacts of global warming and peak oil (depletion). They are projected to cause significant damage to transportation infrastructure and increase transportation costs. They may also increase business risk, food…
Publication date: 2007-06-01 First Published In: The International Journal of Children’s Rights Authors: P. Tranter, S. Sharpe Abstract: Major social upheavals and crises are notorious as catalysts for the re-evaluation of values and the erosion or augmentation of human rights. In the contemporary global setting, scarcely any issue causes more anxiety, either directly or indirectly,…