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Mitigating climate change through sustainable food consumption and production

IntroductionFood security is quickly becoming a very contentious and combative issue within society. Not only are populations rising at an alarming rate relative to available land capacity, overall family consumption of goods and services is also increasing.

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Al Gore's argument on climate change and civilization in Earth in the Balance

In Chapter three of his book Earth in the Balance, former vice president Al Gore makes the point that our civilization is heavily dependent on stability in the climate. For the last ten thousand years, we have experienced the same sort of climate with very few changes.

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Canada's climate change policy and greenhouse gas emission reduction targets

The climate of Planet Earth is heating up, as we know through the empirical research conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past twenty or more years.

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Ruddiman's anthropogenic climate change theory and scientific evidence

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: William F. Ruddiman's Evidence for Long-Term Anthropogenic Climate Change A family huddles together for warmth in a the center of an especially thin-walled thatch hut, the sputtering fire little warmth to combat the wind that finds its cold and hungry way into every…

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Barriers to U.S. climate change legislation and international cooperation

Republican opposition to such a bill, especially in the Senate, has been quite stringent, and several Democratic members of Congress have also joined in opposition to the passing of cap-and-trade and other emissions-oriented legislation.

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Carbon management policy for climate change mitigation in the UK

The aim of this green paper is to improve carbon management, helping the transition towards a low- carbon economy in the UK.

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Public opinion on climate change and media influence

What are the effects of global warming that scientists can identify today? This is an important question to be taken into account as humans struggle to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere -- the principal cause of climate change.

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Political philosophers debate climate change, healthcare, and Afghanistan

Such understanding gives perspective that may not be available when merely weighing problems from the limits of today's major lines of thinking.

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Government regulation of climate change and economic trade-offs

The liberalists sustain the idea according to which the market finds its own resources to regulate itself, thanks to the market forces.

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Human activities and climate change: causes, predictions, and mitigation

In the past decade, both world history and the world landscape have been transformed by various natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tsunamis', earthquakes, and unseasonably warm winters. Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's climate.

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