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Climate Management Issues
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Climate Management Issues

by Julie K. Gines
December 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
470 pages
16h 40m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Climate Management Issues
181Sociological Connections to Climate Change
these disasters were mixed. The announcement by NASA that the oceans
were getting warmer, the escalating greenhouse effect, the drastic melting
of the Siberian permafrost releasing trapped methane, and the unexpected
shrinking glaciers on the Antarctic ice sheet shocked the scientic commu-
nity, yet received no real reaction from sociologists.
Lever-Tracy’s explanation for the nonalarmist response does make sense.
She explains it as a aw in the science of sociology and attributes it to two
factors. The rst factor is the mirroring of an indifference sociologists nd
in contemporary society towards to the future. The second factor is soci-
ologists’ continuing foundational suspicion of naturali ...
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ISBN: 9781439861066