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Climate Change and Society |
Babu Lal
Associate Professor
Physics
Swami Sharaddha Nand College, Alipur,
(University of Delhi) Delhi, India
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DOI:10.5281/zenodo.8406127 Chapter ID: 18145 |
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Abstract Climate
change is one of the greatest ecological and social challenges of the twenty -
first century.Sociologist have made important contribution to our knowledge of
the human drivers of contemporary climate change, including better
understanding of the effect of social structure and political economy on
national green house gase emission,the interplay of power and politics in the
corporate sector and in policy systems,and the factors that influence individual
actions by citizens and consumers.Sociology is also poised to make importance
contributions to the study of the climate justice across multiple lines of
stratification, including race, class , gender, indigenous identify sexually
and queerness and disability , and to articulate the effect of climate change
on our relationship to non human species.To realise its potential to contribute
to the societal discourse on climate change,sociology must become theoretically
integrated engaged with other disciplines,and remain concerned with issues
related to environmental and climate inequalities. Keywords:- Climate Change,
Environmental Sociology and Green House Gases. Introduction Climate
and Society Interacting In
2018 , the US National Climate Assessment concluded that the "earth 's
climate is now changing faster then at any point in the history of modern
civilization, primarily as a result of human activities" Koch et al
suggests that the so called Little Ice Aged(LIA) of the sixteenth to nineteenth
century may have driven in part by the great Killing of the sixteenth century,
when Europeans, through direct violence and desease, caused that death of much
of the indegenous human population in the Americas. The resulting reduction in
human activities lead to vegetarian changes that removed substantial carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere and thus contributed to a cooling and highly
variable climate. In turn, the LIA has a strong influence on social change
around the globe. Of course, the LIA had multiple causes, and the contribution
to it by the European incursion into North America will continue to be
analysed. But as this tragic history demonstrates, climate change has complex
causes and consequences that are clearly issues worthy of sociological
investigation. Here, we review sociological research on the drivers of climate
change and the implications of climate change for social justice. We conclude
with observations about how sociology can most effectively engaged the subject.
Even with this reduced scope, we can cite only a few highlights from the
literatures we engaged, but we reorganized the vast conversation behind each
citation. In particular, space limits prevent any detailed tracing of the
intellectual history of many of the topics. Thus, our goal is to provide
readers with an overview and entry points to current and ever - evolving
work.By the end on nineteenth century, it was clear that shifts in atmospheric
concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) could change planetary climates. Since
the industrial revolution, especially starting in the mid -twentieth century ,
human actions have increased the atmospheric concentration of (GHGs), CO2,
methane, nitrous oxides, and chlorofluorocarbons , while also decreasing the
albedo or reflectivity, of the earth surface. Climate refers to long term
patterns of weather, including temperature, precipitation, and storm events.
Contemporary climate change involve both shifts in long term averages and
increased variation around them, with extreme events becoming more common. While
earth climate has always been dynamic, current changes are so substantial and
rapid that they could overwhelm adaptive capacity and might drive the climate
and biosphere into massively disruptive patterns .By 2017, Earth's average
temperature had increased by 1 degree Celsius above preindustrial l levels as a
result of GHG emission and changes in albedo. It will difficult to limit total
warming to less than 2 degree Celsius, and extremely difficult to reach the
goal of 1.5 degree Celsius, regarded as an upper bound to avoid great risk of
harm the economy, human health and well being and earth ecosystem. As the
intergovernmental climate change puts it "Pathways limiting global warming
to 1.5 degree Celsius with no or limited overshoot would require rapid far
-reaching transition in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including
transport and building) , and industrial systems ( high confidence) .These
systems transitions are unprecedented in terms of scale, but not necessarily in
terms of speed." Raul Munoz and Co-workers examined the residual
algal-bacterial biomass from photo synthetically supported organic pollutant
biodegradation processes, in enclosed photo bioreactors. It was fested for its
ability to accumulate Cu, No, Cd and Zn. The algal-bacterial biomass combined
the high adsorption capacity of micro algae with the low cost of the residual
biomass, which makes it an attractive biosorbents for environmental
applications.Waste water contains natural, inorganic and poisonous pollutants.
Maximum of the metals and metalloids causes risk. Metallic pollution are on the
whole disturbed within the ecosystem, water, soil and sediments. Atmospheric
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