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The most widespread contemporary example of organized anti-environmentalism is the climate change denial or skepticism movement. Skeptics attack the evidence for climate change. [ 8 ] Skepticism can target the observed trend ("global warming does not exist"), the identification of causes ("warming exists, but humans are not responsible"), or ...
The use of the term "degrowth" is criticized for being detrimental to the degrowth movement because it could carry a negative connotation, [102] in opposition to the positively perceived "growth". [103] "Growth" is associated with the "up" direction and positive experiences, while "down" generates the opposite associations. [104]
The negative greenhouse effect is a phenomenon that can produce localized, rather than planetary, cooling. Whereas the anti-greenhouse effect involves an overall temperature inversion in the stratosphere, the negative greenhouse effect involves a localized temperature inversion in the troposphere.
The opposite effect is known as eutrophication or nutrient pollution. [6] Both depletion and eutrophication lead to shifts in biodiversity and species abundance (usually a decline). [7] The effects are bidirectional in that a shift in species composition in a habitat may also lead to shift in the nutrient composition. [8]
To avoid the negative effects of diseconomies of scale, a firm must stick to the lowest average output cost and try to recognise any external diseconomies of scale. Moreover, on reaching the lowest average cost, a firm must either expand to other countries to increase demand for its products, or seek new markets or produce new products that do ...
Widespread negative equity is typically the result of a significant economic disturbance, like a recession or depression, or an abrupt bursting of a housing bubble (a sharp, speculative spiraling ...
The original image of Barbra Streisand's cliff-top residence in Malibu, California, which she attempted to suppress in 2003. The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.
Lack of widespread support in developing countries [ edit ] Critics have asserted that people from poor and developing countries have been relatively accepting and supportive of globalization while the strongest opposition to globalization has come from activists, unions, and NGOs in wealthier developed countries .