PREFACE

The debate on climate change has become an increasingly prominent topic. While there are different viewpoints with regard to climate change and especially its causes, including negations of this phenomenon, this paper will focus on the anthropogenic perspective. In this context, it is assumed that climate change is a consequence of human industrial activity, emitting harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Based on the premises of some empirical studies, it is assumed that a further temperature rise will have drastic social and ecological consequences, harmful especially to the least responsible and poorest.

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