Changing Course—And the World

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-170
Author(s):  
Terence M. O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
Hybrid Car ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World

For too long some corporations have held a gun to our heads and demanded that we choose jobs or choose the Earth. It's a false choice. We share a dream to build an America in which every worker who builds green can afford a hybrid car and every worker who is struggling to keep their house warm can join the struggle against global warming. The foundation that LIUNA has put in place over the last century can help build the green economy. Most green jobs for the foreseeable future will not be created by businesses alone, but through partnerships between business and government in the form of subsidies, incentives, or outright contracts.

Global Warming Solutions and the Path to Recovery

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
David Foster
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Look Back

We will look back on the last year as a period when extraordinary economic events marked the unraveling of one economic model and placed in front of the global community a set of choices. Either we restructure the architecture of the global economy and replace it with something else, or we face a future of devastating economic consequences. The Blue Green Alliance has become one of America's leading advocates for global warming solutions and we believe that the benefits and economic opportunities will far outweigh the costs. We have popularized the terms “green economy” and “green jobs” and we believe that every job in America should turn into a green job.

On the idea of the planetary

Soundings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (78) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Dipesh Chakrabarty ◽  
Ashish Ghadiali
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Atmospheric Sciences ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
The Relationship

The notion of the planetary allows us to distinguish between the global of globalisation and the global of global warming. Globalisation is the process through which humans created the world we live in, how we converted the planet into a spherical human domain, at the centre of which are the human stories of technology, empires, capitalism and inequality. Global warming is what has resulted at the planetary level as intensified human consumption of the globe's resources has turned humanity into a geological agent of change. The global is 500 years old, while the planetary is as old as the age of the earth. The physical world has its own deep history: over time it has experienced profound changes. If climate change is to be addressed this mutability must be recognised – the unchanging nature of the world can no longer be taken for granted. The interview covers the rise of atmospheric sciences during the Cold War, when the Earth became, effectively, part of a comparative study of planets; the relationship between Marxism and the idea of 'deep history'; the human-made ecological disaster of bush-fires in Australia; the influence of Rohith Vemula and Rabindranath Tagore on planetary thinking and ideas about connectivity; biopower, zoe and the pandemic; and the difficulty of thinking politically about deep history.

Development of Portable CO2 Monitoring System

2013 ◽  
Vol 838-841 ◽  
pp. 2547-2551
Author(s):  
Chilin Liu ◽  
Thammita A. S. Anuruddha ◽  
Atsushi Minato ◽  
Satoru Ozawa
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Concentration ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Measurement Systems ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
The Stability

Recently, the concern for global environmental issues has risen all over the world. The increment in concentration of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases that causes global warming in earth’s atmosphere became a serious problem. The level of the sea rises by melting glaciers when global warming advances it. Forecasting the changes of carbon dioxide concentration is a major issue to maintain the stability of the Earth and its species. The measurement of carbon dioxide is also important for agriculture and local industrialization. The density of carbon dioxide varies depending on the environment. The development of a low cost device that detects carbon dioxide density is discusses in this paper. We developed some measurement systems of carbon dioxide for various purpose.

scholarly journals EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (9SE) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Basanti Jain
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Short Wave ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Long Wave ◽  
The World ◽  
Abnormal Increase ◽  
Ionizing Radiations ◽  
Long Wave Infrared

The abnormal increase in the concentration of the greenhouse gases is resulting in higher temperatures. We call this effect is global warming. The average temperature around the world has increased about 1'c over 140 years, 75% of this has risen just over the past 30 years. The solar radiation, as it reaches the earth, produces "greenhouse effect" in the atmosphere. The thick atmospheric layers over the earth behaves as a glass surface, as it permits short wave radiations from coming in, but checks the outgoing long wave ones. As a result, gradually the atmosphere gets heated up during the day as well as night. If such an effect were not there in the atmosphere the ultraviolet, infrared and other ionizing radiations would have also entered our atmosphere and the very existence of life would have been endangered. The ozone layer shields the earth from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiations. The warm earth emits long wave (infrared)   radiations, which is partly absorbed by the green house gaseous blanket. This atmospheric blanket raises the earth’s temperature.

Nothing Else Matters

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Blok
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Ontological Concept

Abstract If the world in which we are intentionally involved is threatened by climate change, this raises the question about our place on Earth. In this article, we argue that the ecological crisis we face today draws our attention to the Earth as ontic-ontological condition of our being-in-the-world. Because the Earth is often reflected upon in relation to human existence, living systems or material entities in the philosophical tradition, we argue for an ontological concept of the materiality of the Earth as un-correlated being in this article. We develop five principles of the materiality of the Earth: the conativity, non-identity, responsiveness, performativity and eventuality of the Earth. We will argue that it is this notion of Earth that matters to us in the age of global warming.

scholarly journals Global Warming and Paperless Strategy in School

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Dewi Moelyaningrum ◽  
koesmiyati
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Daily Activity ◽  
Paper Waste ◽  
Pine Tree ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One

Proceeding Seminar Nasional“Perubahan Iklim dalam Perspektif Kesehatan Masyarakat”Jember, 16 Oktober 2010 Our daily activity often needs papers. Papers made from the tree. People in the world was consumed 3 million ton of papers per year and 10million tree per day was cut for it. The one pine tree was 5 years old can produce 80,500 sheets of paper. School is the most institution which use papers to support their activity. School produces paper waste in great quantities. Paperless strategy in school can help us to save the earth. it also can save our pin forest and help us to reduce global warming because of cut the tree to made papers. Paperless strategy in school can implementation by using some of the technology such as an email to collect homework, use the e-book, save data in flash disk, etc. Paperless strategy in school must be supported by the government to save our earth and stop global warming.

KEBIJAKAN NASIONAL DALAM BIDANG ENERGI DAN LINGKUNGAN DALAM ADAPTASI DAN MITIGASI PEMANASAN GLOBAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ichwanudin Mawardi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Water Vapor ◽  
Greenhouse Effect ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time

Current human activities have the potential to increase gas caused by the greenhouse effect. Increasing the temperature is not constant, but in the long time scales indicates that there has been global warming. In connection with efforts to save the earth from climate change in poor countries in the world through the UN session held in Bali have agreed to: (1) Bali Roadmap; (2) agreement on action to perform activities of adaptation to the negative impacts of climate change. Many people who took out the activities of carbon dioxide, kloroflorometan, nitrogen oxides, methane, aerosols, and heat or clearing land for housing, agriculture or logging. The greenhouse effect in nature has been going on for billions of years. Without water vapor and CO2 in the atmosphere,the temperature of the earth will be cooler 33 ° C compared to the current condition, so the earth becomes unfit for habitation. Thus, the greenhouse effect caused by water vapor and CO2 has a positive effect for human life. The problem right now is a greenhouse gas concentrations increasing beyond normal levels of natural as well as the emergence of several new greenhouse gases such as CFCs and CFC successors, which would cause further warming and increasingly threatening the environment carrying capacity. The world has undergone changes in temperature, season, and also increased the frequency of the most dramatic climate that requires continuous regulation to control the global climate system strictly.Keywords: greenhouse effect, global warming, climate change

Exiting Socialism Challenges

2006 ◽  
pp. 114-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Social Challenges ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
Municipal Economy

Exiting socialism by almost a third of the earth population appears to be the most prominent event of the late XX century. The author makes an attempt to formulate some challenges of this process and thus a theory of exiting socialism. First, he inquires into the concept of exiting socialism as it exists in the world. Then he analyzes real experiences in this field. The research enables the author to outline the main economic, governmental and social challenges of such exit - from municipal economy to science and culture.

Slavery and the Trumpocene: It's Not the End of the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Claire Colebrook
Keyword(s):  
Living System ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Geological Period

There is something more catastrophic than the end of the world, especially when ‘world’ is understood as the horizon of meaning and expectation that has composed the West. If the Anthropocene is the geological period marking the point at which the earth as a living system has been altered by ‘anthropos,’ the Trumpocene marks the twenty-first-century recognition that the destruction of the planet has occurred by way of racial violence, slavery and annihilation. Rather than saving the world, recognizing the Trumpocene demands that we think about destroying the barbarism that has marked the earth.

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