Climate Change and Energy

Alice Korngold

Chapter 3 in A Better World, Inc, 2014, pp 37-63 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We are embarking on a period of chaos where global climate change is causing storms, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, and other natural disasters that kill people, disrupt lives, and destroy homes, offices, schools, and cities.2 Scientific leaders, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Meteorological Association, affirm that climate change is a real and growing threat to the world.3 Hurricane Sandy provided a #x201C;mild#x201C; preview, damaging or destroying 650,000 homes, causing 8.5 million customers to lose power, and precipitating $50 billion of damage in the northeastern United States.4 The droughts and flooding that will result as climate change worsens will increase hunger and starvation. A number of experts predict that in some regions, climate change will likely provoke violence and threaten global security as people fight for clean water, food, and shelter.5 Those are the conditions that our children and our grandchildren will face.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-33712-2_3

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