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“We have a single mission, to protect and hand on the planet to the next generation,” said the President of France, François Hollande, at the World Economic Forum (WEF). But are humans acting in order to overcome this mission? Since the new technological and productive developments, conditioned especially after the First Industrial Revolution, a great charge of harmful impacts was influencing the sustainability of the planet. However, the casualness that man has undertaken in its actions towards the environment and even towards his fellow have placed him face to face with an imminent danger. In this imminent danger, it’s possible to highlight the extreme weather events resulting from environmental disturbances that have been accumulated by the society, and also by the increasing socio-economic inequalities polarized by economic globalization. In relation to several climatic manifestations of extreme proportion, it’s easy to realize that in a time perspective the consequences that today seem to be just momentary they actually extend in space and time from direct or indirect dynamics. That’s why for at least three decades, human activity has been the main factor in climate change because of its greenhouse gas emissions, its growing consumption, and its energy use.
The largest known contribution in climate change comes from the burning of fossil fuels, which releases carbon dioxide gas to the atmosphere. With the increase of these gases in the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect

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