Anshuman Ghosh, School of Law, CHRIST (Deemed to be) University
ABSTRACT
Many people's lives have been affected by changes in the environment across the globe. Coral reefs are now disappearing, Arctic ocean ice volume is at new lows, the number of catastrophic occurrences (such as wildfires, dry seasons, floods) is increasing, and species are being relocated in large numbers. There has been an increase in global warming and climate change as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution. Higher temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns, changes in the frequency and distribution of weather events such as droughts, storms, floods, and heat waves as well as sea level rise, and the resulting impacts on both human and natural systems, are among the observed and anticipated climate changes. Many scientists1 argue that the impacts of climate change will be devastating for natural and human systems, and that climate change poses an existential threat to human civilization. However, action to respond to climate change has been slow.
In this paper, the author represents climate change as one that draws attention to the relationship between science and society, challenges global governance institutions, and triggers new social movements. Social scientists' involvement in climate change is causing conceptual renewal in fields such as social practise theory and transition theory. Sociologists are interested in climate change because of the social nature of the actions that are causing it. Meal preparation, office work and household heating and cooling all produce greenhouse gas emissions that have a direct impact on global warming. Furthermore, climate change's causes and effects are dispersed unevenly, presenting issues of social justice. When it comes to greenhouse gas emissions per capita, richer nations tend to create greater emissions per capita than poorer ones. In addition to affecting the environment, proposed climate change solutions have varying societal implications. A worldwide social challenge has never been faced before, and this one has shown to be politically intractable at several governance studies.
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