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Atmosphere - A Thin Line between Life and Death

Kasi, Rayappa A.
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Kasi, Rayappa A.
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climate ethics
climate change
greenhouse effect
Christian ethics
carbon dioxide
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Environmental ethics
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/175940
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"Nature is fragile, environmentalists often tell us. The truth is far more worrying. Its revenge for man-made Global Warming will very probably unleash unstoppable planetary forces. And they will not be gradual. The history of our planet’s climate shows that it does not do gradual change. Under pressure, whether from sunspots or orbital wobbles or the degredations of humans, it lurches—virtually overnight. We humans have spent 400 generations building our current civilization in an era of climatic stability—a long, generally balmy spring that has endured since the last ice age. But this tranquility looks like the exception rather than the rule in nature. And if its end is inevitable one day, we seem to be triggering its imminent and violent collapse. Our world may be blown away in the process." (p. 5)
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2010
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