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Primer on Global Warming and Climate Change – Part III (Mitigation and Adaptation)
23/06/2009 | Dr. Mita Das
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Faced with the imminent dangers of climate change and global warming, we have three options:Mitigation, meaning measures to reduce the pace & magnitude of the changes in global climate being caused by human activities.Adaptation, meaning measures to reduce the adverse impacts on human well-being resulting from the changes in climate that do occur.Suffering the adverse impacts that are not avoided by either mitigation or adaptation.


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The Earth today stands in imminent peril .. those are not the words of eco-warriors any more but considered opinion of a group of eminent scientists studying climate change and it's effects. it is becoming apparent that nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change induced by human growth.

It is time we stopped the pillage and plunder of mother Earth's finite resources and learned to live in harmony and balance. We owe it to our future generations. As a famous Native American proverb goes - "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

This section features environmental issues from sustainable development to global warming and other current issues that affect all of us - from what we do to what we don't do and what we should be doing!!
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5 Primer on Climate Change and Global Warming - Part II (Impact) Dr. Mita Das 2414
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7 What is Sustainable Development? Mita 2104
8 Earth Day 2008 Mita 2114

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