Hope to Embrace Radical Uncertainty in Climate Change
No one saw it coming, but suddenly it was there, climate change, expressed in a three years drought in Cape Town, South Africa. It is only with hindsight that weather watchers can pin a start-date to the drought: June 2015. ‘Between then and June 2018, the rainfall varied between fifty and seventy p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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ATF Press
2020
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| In: |
Fullness of Life and Justice for All
Year: 2020, Pages: 51-68 |
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| Summary: | No one saw it coming, but suddenly it was there, climate change, expressed in a three years drought in Cape Town, South Africa. It is only with hindsight that weather watchers can pin a start-date to the drought: June 2015. ‘Between then and June 2018, the rainfall varied between fifty and seventy percent of the long-term average.’¹ The drought peaked in January 2018. Then it looked as if there was only three months’ water supply left. Headlines around the world warned that Cape Town might become one of the first cities globally to run out of water. If dam levels... |
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| ISBN: | 1925679438 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Fullness of Life and Justice for All
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv16t6ms2.8 |