Climate Change and Social Inequality the health and social costs of global warming

The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is towa...

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Main Author: Singer, Merrill (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group 2019
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Summary:The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is toward an ever warmer Earth. However, climate change does not occur in a social vacuum; it reflects relations between social groups and forces us to contemplate the ways in which we think about and engage with the environment and each other
Physical Description:vi, 247 pages 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9781138102903
9781138102910