Climate—the average of weather over time—is always changing, but never in known human experience more dramatically than it is likely to change in the coming century. For millennia, since civilizations arose from ancient farming societies, the earth’s climate as a whole was relatively stable, with temperatures and patterns of rainfall that have supported human life and its expansion around the globe
Publication
state of world population 2009
Facing a changing world: women, population and climate
No. of pages: 104
Publication date: 2009
Author: UNFPA