#globalwarming is caused by human activity, primarily by industrialized countries. The problems it causes are everybody's problems. #Industrialized countries tends to have more resources to mitigate the problems and seems to choose that path instead of the removing the cause. Poor countries can not reduce emission that makes a difference and has few options to handle #climate #risk.

How the West became #WEIRD

(#Western, #Educated, #Industrialized, #Rich, and #Democratic)

#JosephHenrich

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henrich-explores-weird-societies/

> Every person.. is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them.. [especially] on the #Japanese archipelago.
.. #Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis.. transformed by an engineered, #industrialized, and poisonous environment. #Toxins moved.. from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies.
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/4077/
#BrettWalker #ToxicArchipelago

> #ToxicArchipelago.. how toxic pollution works.. into.. human bodies and brings unimaginable pain.. #BrettWalker examines.. case studies of #industrial #toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from #insecticide.. #poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining; congenital deformities from #MethylMercury,, and lung diseases
.. the #Japanese archipelago has become #industrialized over the last two hundred years -- and how people and the environment have suffered..
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295991382/toxic-archipelago/
#Japan