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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

These effects of climate change have been closely linked to socioecological hazards, including biodiversity loss, pollution, deforestation, coastal erosion, overfishing, and freshwater salinization (Douglas & Cooper, 2020). Aggregate Trends of Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries in 2013-2020 Shah, K.

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The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

Vermont Law

In Mexico , the Biosphere Reserve Sierra Gorda faces excessive logging, fires, and deforestation for tourist housing. In India, the 2013 flash floods in the Kedarnath Valley occurred due to a climate-change-aggravated melting of glaciers triggered by hordes of tourists banking themselves in the mountains yearly.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

10] As wealthy nations develop and farms become more productive, grasslands, forests, and wildlife are returning. Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] Central America, South America, Africa, and Oceania are still deforesting. 11] The key is producing more food on less land.