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Article: Global Climate Change: Resilience through Mitigation and Adaptation
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- Logistics Spectrum
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Society of Logistics Engineers Jan-Mar 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Climate change has come of age in the public consciousness and conscience, and not a day, minute or second too soon. In 1983 a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report, Projecting Future Sea Level Rise, was deemed by many as too speculative at best but more often as too "radical." The award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscores how far we have come since 1983, not only in understanding the root causes of global climate change but also the toll it is already unleashing on the planet.
Harvard Professor John P. Holdren notes that in responding to climate change there are three paths open to us - mitigate, adapt or suffer - ...