Impacts
Through changes in the radiative energy balance of the climate system, black carbon causes temperature changes that produce a variety of environmental impacts on human, plant and animal ecosystems. In addition, black carbon is a form of particulate matter, which is a category of emissions linked to premature mortality and disability.
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“We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence.... The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)