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Degradation of the environment and climate change are the most important challenges facing humanity. For thousands of years humanity lived inharmonious relationship with nature. The industrial revolution marked a major turning point in Earth's ecology and humans' relationship with the environment. Following the Second World War, massive urbanisation (from 30% of global population in 1950 to 56% in 2016), manifold increase in global GDP (from [5.7 trillion in 1950 to [110trillion in 2016), unprecedented growth in population (from 2.6 billion in 1950 to 7.4billion in 2016) and rising energy consumption, have resulted in a quantum leap to human induced activities, particularly since 1950. Today, we are in the midst of a rapid transition to a world where human populations are more crowded, more connected and more consuming, simultaneously co-habiting with unparalleled levels of poverty and hunger. With rapidly increasing consumption, the carrying capacity of the Earth has come under tremendous pressure. Large-scale mining, massive industrialisation, intensive commercial agriculture and destruction of forests have given rise to unprecedented pollution of air, rivers, lakes and oceans, d

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Author

Gauri Shankar Gupta

Publisher

Hansib Publications Limited

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781910553947

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Fiction, Science