Abstract
Climate change will have negative impacts on the political, economic, and demographic structures of society. These include a rise in ethnic tensions in the Indian Sub Continent, massive immigration to Europe, regional economic collapse and political destabilization in Africa, the inundation of island nations and economic losses in the Americas among many other changes which will combine to destabilize humanity for generations. International affairs has failed to come up with a solution because global warming is a universal prevention focused problem that trades short term gains for long term losses. Global warming will be solved by the onset of grid parity within the next few decades, but it will be too late to avert drastic consequences. Humanity is resilient and civilization will ultimately find a way to cope in an age of global warming.
Committee Chair
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Committee Members
Andy Sobel, Michael E. Wysession, Slava Solomatov, Michael McCabe
Degree
Master of Arts (AM/MA)
Author's Department
International Affairs
Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
Winter 12-2014
Language
English (en)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7936/K7348H9T
Recommended Citation
Kanlic, Dino, "The Impacts of Climate Change on the World’s Economic, Political, and Demographic Structures" (2014). Arts & Sciences Theses and Dissertations. 14.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.7936/K7348H9T
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