GGRA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fossil Fuels Lobby, Carbon Neutrality, Environmentalism
Document Summary
Earth"s atmosphere is composed of a variety of gases, which support life and maintain. Changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere means that it holds in more of the. Release of massive amounts of co2 into the atmosphere results in an increase in global. Over the last 200 years the global climate has increased by 0. 8 degrees celsius. Projections suggest that our planet will warm by another 2-4 degrees sun"s energy temperature (also methane, cfcs and other chemicals) Melting ice fields and raising sea levels. Thinking geographically about climate change extraction, distribution and consumption. Interconnection between different moments of climate change ranging from energy. Unequal spatial distribution of fossil fuel emissions and the effects of climate change. Climate change has little to do with the state of the environment, but much to do with the. Roots of the climate problem are not in the environment but rather in our political economic systems state of capitalism.
