Singer, Merrill,

Climate change and social inequality : the health and social costs of global warming / Merrill Singer. - London : Routledge, 2018. - 248 pages

The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is toward an ever warmer Earth. However, climate change does not occur in a social vacuum; it reflects relations between social groups and forces us to contemplate the ways in which we think about and engage with the environment and each other. Employing the experience-near anthropological lens to consider human social life in an environmental context, this book examines the fateful global intersection of ongoing climate change and widening social inequality.

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Global warming--Social aspects.
Global warming--Health aspects.
Environmental justice.
Environment and Ecology.