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Sociological Connectionsto
Climate Change
Overview
This chapter takes a look at the sociological issues of climate change and
explores several of the current key aspects, such as the public reactions
to environmental issues in general and the reasons for those reactions—
why some people seem to care so deeply about the environment around
them and its future, yet others seem to give it no thought at all. It also
looks at the public’s slow shift in recent years toward understanding the
basic concepts of climate change. In fact, the shift in emphasis from the
name global warming to climate change was partly for sociolog ...