Climate Change Impact on Eco-biology
and Socio-economy—A Concise
Discussion
Subhankar Chatterjee and Ankit Tandon
Abstract Global scientific community has a near unanimous consensus that anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases and thus their rising atmospheric concentration are causing global warming and other climatic changes. According to the IPCC,
global average annual mean surface air-temperature is projected to rise between 1.4
and 5.8 °C by 2100. This rise in temperature will impose various climate related
incidents like drought, forest fires, typhoons, more intense hurricanes, and frequent
storms. Due to the decrease in air quality, human health related problems in future
will be catastrophic. Considering the present climate trend, climate scientists are
speculating that new ecosystems will be emerged and existing ecosystems will be
wiped out in future and this shift in biomes will be irreversible. The multivariate
factors of climate change are supposed to have an effect on all the levels of biodiversity, starting from organism to biome levels. Not only ecosystem destruction but
also climate migration is a major issue at present because this migration is directly
impacting the socio-economic profile of many countries. Many governmental and
non-governmental organisations have predicted that a billion people may be displaced by 2050 as a result of environmental causes, and climate change will be one
of the major contributors. It has been found that people are less bothered about climate change and this issue is in their lowest priority list as people think they are not
personally responsible for climate change and has seen climate change as a global
effect. Ignorance and greed of the people sometimes leads them to violate the natural/environmental rules and as a result negative consequences of climate change are
the obvious outcomes of these unethical activities.
S. Chatterjee (B) · A. Tandon (B)
Department of Environmental Sciences, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Central
University of Himachal Pradesh, TAB-Shahpur, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 176206, India
e-mail: subhankar@cuhimachal.ac.in
A. Tandon
e-mail: ankittandon@cuhimachal.gov.in
S. Chatterjee
Bioremediation and Metabolomics Research Group, Department of Chemistry and Chemical
Sciences, School of Physical and Material Sciences, Central University of Himachal Pradesh,
TAB-Shahpur, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 176206, India
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
N. Roy et al. (eds.), Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions
in Resource use and Conservation, Environmental Science and Engineering,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32463-6_25
527
and Socio-economy—A Concise
Discussion
Subhankar Chatterjee and Ankit Tandon
Abstract Global scientific community has a near unanimous consensus that anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases and thus their rising atmospheric concentration are causing global warming and other climatic changes. According to the IPCC,
global average annual mean surface air-temperature is projected to rise between 1.4
and 5.8 °C by 2100. This rise in temperature will impose various climate related
incidents like drought, forest fires, typhoons, more intense hurricanes, and frequent
storms. Due to the decrease in air quality, human health related problems in future
will be catastrophic. Considering the present climate trend, climate scientists are
speculating that new ecosystems will be emerged and existing ecosystems will be
wiped out in future and this shift in biomes will be irreversible. The multivariate
factors of climate change are supposed to have an effect on all the levels of biodiversity, starting from organism to biome levels. Not only ecosystem destruction but
also climate migration is a major issue at present because this migration is directly
impacting the socio-economic profile of many countries. Many governmental and
non-governmental organisations have predicted that a billion people may be displaced by 2050 as a result of environmental causes, and climate change will be one
of the major contributors. It has been found that people are less bothered about climate change and this issue is in their lowest priority list as people think they are not
personally responsible for climate change and has seen climate change as a global
effect. Ignorance and greed of the people sometimes leads them to violate the natural/environmental rules and as a result negative consequences of climate change are
the obvious outcomes of these unethical activities.
S. Chatterjee (B) · A. Tandon (B)
Department of Environmental Sciences, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Central
University of Himachal Pradesh, TAB-Shahpur, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 176206, India
e-mail: subhankar@cuhimachal.ac.in
A. Tandon
e-mail: ankittandon@cuhimachal.gov.in
S. Chatterjee
Bioremediation and Metabolomics Research Group, Department of Chemistry and Chemical
Sciences, School of Physical and Material Sciences, Central University of Himachal Pradesh,
TAB-Shahpur, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 176206, India
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
N. Roy et al. (eds.), Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions
in Resource use and Conservation, Environmental Science and Engineering,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32463-6_25
527