Global temperatures continue to rise-year after year new heat records are set; the permafrost is melting and rotting-leading to damaging summer methane emissions; glaciers are receding everywhere; species are endangered-perhaps a quarter of species now on earth will be extinct by mid-century, and half by 2100; incidents of drought, poor water quality, crop losses, landslides, pest inundation, severe storms, raging wildfires, and tropical diseases are increasing and spreading; massive human dislocations-particularly in low-lying coastal areas inundated by rising seas-are already occurring and expected to get worse; deforestation-which also drives climate change-continues at ever rapid pace in the world's great jungles; in the summer of 2004-2005, the oceans turned from carbon sink to carbon producers (Sinden 2007; Wood 2007; Irwin 2010). We are witnessing the end of nature where we have reached a tipping point such that the feedback loops have been triggered and devastating consequences are unavoidable. The scientific community is certain to a very high degree that the cause of these harms is anthropogenic (McKibben 1989; Sinden 2007; IPCC 2007). The anthropogenic impact on Earth has grown so massive that we have come to an epochal moment (Irwin 2010).
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Franz, A. (2012). Climate change in the courts: A US and global perspective. In Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective (Vol. 9781461436409, pp. 89–107). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3640-9_6
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