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Environmentalism Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and
social movement centered on a concern for the conservation
and improvement of the natural environment, both for its
own sake as well as its importance to civilization. Environmentalists
frequently speak of a planet or place faced with a plethora
of grave and urgent threats; often associated with unbridled
consumption, economic growth, materialism, insensitive
development, and booming human numbers.
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Global Warming
Global
warming is the increase in the average temperature of the
Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth
century and its projected continuation.
Climate model projections
summarized by the IPCC indicate that average global surface
temperature will
likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F)
during the twenty-first century.
Increasing global temperature will cause
sea level to rise, and is expected to increase the intensity
of extreme weather events and to change the amount and
pattern of precipitation. Other effects of global warming
include changes in agricultural yields, trade routes, glacier
retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges
of disease vectors.
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