Upending Climate Violence Research: Fossil Fuel Corporations and the Structural Violence of Climate Change
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Climate Change and Violence
Rapid global climate change is now a fact of twenty fi rst century life. Human activity, especially the production of huge quantities of several greenhouse gases primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, has initiated a general warming trend in our atmosphere and on our planet. This trend will continue and likely will accelerate unless we fi nd a way to return the composition of our atmospher...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Human Ecology Review
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1074-4827,2204-0919
DOI: 10.22459/her.22.02.2016.01