023 Climate Change: Causes, Costs, Consequences, and Call to Action

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Mon, 11/04/2019 - 7:00am to 7:30am
Episode 23
"023 Climate Change: Causes, Costs, Consequences, and Call to Action" > This episode reviews the evidence for the ecologically-disastrous human-caused global warming occurring since the advent of industrialization; the health, environmental and more.

This episode reviews the evidence for the ecologically-disastrous human-caused global warming occurring since the advent of industrialization; the health, environmental, and economic consequences of global warming; weather extremes, rising sea levels, changing patterns of infectious diseases, and species loss; climate change denialism, aided and abetted by the public relations strategy of the fossil fuel industry (which has enormous political clout); the harmful policies of the Trump administration viz a viz climate change: international agreements; and the urgent need of society to heed the warnings of many, including young climate activist Greta Thunberg, to act rapidly to avoid a climate catastrophe.

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