certain that rapid global warming will result from current human activities. 5.2.5 Evaluate the 3 Aim 8: precautionary Consider principle as a whether the justification economic harm for strong of measures action in taken now to response to limit global the threats warming could posed by the be balanced enhanced against the greenhouse potentially effect. much greater harm for future generations of taking no action now. There are also ethical Essential Biologys about whether the health and wealth of future human generations should be jeopardized, and whether it is right to knowingly damage the habitat of, and possibly drive to extinction, species other than humans. The environmental angle here is that the issue of global warming is, by definition, a genuinely global one in terms of causes, consequences and remedies.
certain that rapid global warming will result from current human activities. 5.2.5 Evaluate the precautionary principle as a justification for strong action in response to the threats posed by the enhanced greenhouse effect. 3 Aim 8: Consider whether the economic harm of measures taken now to limit global warming could be balanced against the potentially much greater harm for future generations of taking no action now. There are also ethical Essential Biologys about whether the health and wealth of future human generations should be jeopardized, and whether it is right to knowingly damage the habitat of, and possibly drive to extinction, species other than humans. The environmental angle here is that the issue of global warming is, by definition, a genuinely global one in terms of causes, consequences and remedies.
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