Tipping Point: Climate in Crisis
In the name of development and progress, humans' relationship with the environment has gone beyond coexistence and cooperation, to exploitation and manipulation. Uncontrolled human intervention on the environment is pushing what was once a harmonious balance between humans and nature to a precarious tipping point. Clear evidence of the degradation can already be seen at the furthest reaches of civilization, Antarctica. Now, people seek to tip the scales back in Earth's favor.
In the name of development and progress, humans' relationship with the environment has gone beyond coexistence and cooperation, to exploitation and manipulation. Uncontrolled human intervention on the environment is pushing what was once a harmonious balance between humans and nature to a precarious tipping point. Clear evidence of the degradation can already be seen at the furthest reaches of civilization, Antarctica. Now, people seek to tip the scales back in Earth's favor.
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