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And yet, we've already overshot at least four of these planetary boundaries, risking irreversible impact of
climate
breakdown and ecosystem collapse.
They call
climate
change a threat multiplier that could harm stability and security, while governments around the world are evaluating how to respond.
Farmers are facing challenges of drought from Asia to Africa, from Australia to Oklahoma, while heat waves linked with
climate
change have killed tens of thousands of people in Western Europe in 2003, and again in Russia in 2010.
The roofs not only temper urban heat island impact but they save energy, and therefore money, the emissions that cause
climate
change, and they also reduce stormwater runoff.
In fact, in New York, San Francisco and London, designers have envisioned ways to better integrate the natural and built environments with
climate
change in mind.
It's up to us to look at our homes and our communities, our vulnerabilities and our exposures to risk, and to find ways to not just survive, but to thrive, and it's up to us to plan and to prepare and to call on our government leaders and require them to do the same, even while they address the underlying causes of
climate
change.
We're moving to what I would think of as a fully connected system, and we have global decisions to make in this system, decisions about climate, about finance systems, about resources.
Maybe then we'd spend less time worrying about serial killers and plane crashes, and more time concerned with the subtler and slower disasters we face: the silent buildup of plaque in our arteries, the gradual changes in our
climate.
Suppose tomorrow morning the prime minister of Britain or the president of the U.S., or the leader of any other developed nation, woke up and said, "I'm never going to be able to create all the jobs I need in the current
climate.
On the other hand, there is declining yields because of
climate
change and because of other factors.
That's a greenhouse gas that is messing up our
climate.
Number two, very quickly: How do you solve global
climate
change when we don't even have a national energy policy in this country and when gridlock in Congress seems to be the norm?
Now, this perfect storm that we are facing is the result of our rising population, rising towards 10 billion people, land that is turning to desert, and, of course,
climate
change.
And the authors of the position paper on
climate
change from which I obtained these pictures attribute this change to "unknown processes."
We cannot reduce animal numbers to rest it more without causing desertification and
climate
change.
We cannot burn it without causing desertification and
climate
change.
When I first realized that we had no option as scientists but to use much-vilified livestock to address
climate
change and desertification, I was faced with a real dilemma.
What we are doing globally is causing
climate
change as much as, I believe, fossil fuels, and maybe more than fossil fuels.
And if this continues, we are unlikely to be able to stop the
climate
changing, even after we have eliminated the use of fossil fuels.
He's an architect, and Charlie is deeply concerned about global
climate
change.
And it's an amazing technology because not only does it combat
climate
change, but it's an innovation.
The real role of leadership is
climate
control, creating a
climate
of possibility.
When we use the word "architect" or "designer," what we usually mean is a professional, someone who gets paid, and we tend to assume that it's those professionals who are going to be the ones to help us solve the really big, systemic design challenges that we face like
climate
change, urbanization and social inequality.
So if we're serious about problems like
climate
change, urbanization and health, actually, our existing development models aren't going to do it.
And then, again, as
climate
changed as it always does, and new habitats opened up, we had the arrival of a steppe-adapted species called trogontherii in Central Asia pushing meridionalis out into Western Europe.
Like 99 percent of all the animals that have once lived, they go extinct, likely due to a warming
climate
and fast-encroaching dense forests that are migrating north, and also, as the late, great Paul Martin once put it, probably Pleistocene overkill, so the large game hunters that took them down.
Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous
climate
variation.
Well, the bystander approach is trying to give people tools to interrupt that process and to speak up and to create a peer culture
climate
where the abusive behavior will be seen as unacceptable, not just because it's illegal, but because it's wrong and unacceptable in the peer culture.
That's 40 billion dollars a year wasted on electricity that does not contribute to our well-being but does contribute to
climate
change.
That's
climate
change and demographics.
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