Green Options » complex problems http://greenoptions.com/tag/complex-problems Posts tagged 'complex problems' Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:30:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Complex Systems Theory and Climate Change: Huh? http://sustainablog.org/2008/09/21/complex-systems-theory-and-climate-change-huh/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/09/21/complex-systems-theory-and-climate-change-huh/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:30:13 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://sustainablog.org/2008/09/21/complex-systems-theory-and-climate-change-huh/ Mayors climate protection center logoClimate change is the popular environmental problem of today’s generation. In the 70s it was concern over pesticides (thanks to Rachel Carson), in the 80s sustainable development entered our lexicon, and today it is climate change. The biggest problem is that for the first time, the generational environmental problem is one that is global in nature. Climate change affects GLOBAL average temperatures, not local plant and animal life, nor local and regional communities. That climate change is global in nature means that while the causes of climate change are local in nature (leaving the car running while you run into the store to buy a quart of milk), the effects of climate change are either much more global (potentially the melting of the ice caps and rising sea levels) or tend to affect people in far parts of the world (new weather patterns leading to failing crops and/or changing growth patterns).

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