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Society and Future Climate Change

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Climate and Geo-Sciences

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The paper outlines the increasing concern with climatic instability and the potential major dislocations of human societies. An initial presentation of the interaction of climate and society is followed by a range of impacts and alternative responses. The catastrophic preoccupation allows for a concluding speculative section utilizing alternative images of the future and broad strategies for prudent responses to a transforming environment.

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  1. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80523, USA

    Evan Vlachos

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  1. Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    A. Berger

  2. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    S. Schneider

  3. Centre des Faibles Radioactivités, Laboratoire Mixte CNRS-CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    J. Cl. Duplessy

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Vlachos, E. (1989). Society and Future Climate Change. In: Berger, A., Schneider, S., Duplessy, J.C. (eds) Climate and Geo-Sciences. NATO ASI Series, vol 285. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2446-8_36

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