Four cultures: new synergies for engaging society on climate change
Nisbet, M.C., M.A. Hixon, K.D. Moore, and M. Nelson, 2010: “Four cultures: new synergies for engaging society on climate change.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, v. 8, pp. 329–331, doi: 10.1890/1540-9295-8.6.329.
The scientific community has largely reached consensus that climate change is real, is exacerbated by human activities, and is causing detectable shifts in both living and non-living components of the biosphere. Yet, documenting and predicting the ecological, economic, social, and cultural consequences of climate change have not yet stimulated an appropriately strong and rapid societal response, especially in the US. Climate-change impacts, and the related environmental degradation and species extinctions, continue to increase at rates far steeper than the rate of social change. If this trend continues, we may well miss our last chances to take appropriate action.
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