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Key Takeaways From the Chapter

In this chapter, you should have developed a good understanding of :

  • The causes of climate change
  • The impacts of climate change on the environment and humanity
  • Efforts that could be taken to counteract global warming such as:
    • Renewable energy
    • Geoengineering processes
    • Colonizing Mars as an alternate to Earth

Exercises

  1. What technologies have been created as solutions to climate change?
  2. Provide a few examples of how climate change has altered Earth’s environment.
  3. What are the key components of a human transportation system to Mars?
  4. What is geoengineering? Explain in two or three sentences.

 

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