Social warming

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The term Global Warming is frequenlty used as synonim of Climate change.

But there are other simmilar fenomena in different areas beyong the Natural environment of our Planet. Among them we define Social Warming as a process of change in human societies characterized by an increasing rythm of changes with serious risks of breaking the social balance.

Changes in human societies are as natural as changes in Earth's atmosphere, litosphere and biosphere. The rythm and nature of changes made in recent historical periods are breaking the natural balance, reaching levels that imply serious risks for the survival of many species (included ourselves).

In a parallel (and not completely independent) process, changes in social structures are accelerating in an uncontrolled way that causes several social and personal disorders and could eventually determine the decline of a civilisation.

Authors as Jared Diamond (Collapse (book)) have studied the close effect that changes made by men on the environment (and the consequent breaking of ecological balance) have caused the decline of civilizations in the past.

The Global Social Warming concept has been proposed as a new area of study aiming not only to understand the nature and reasons of the social crisis related with the current Climate Change crisis, but also to propose ideas for solutions, based on the thesis that Climate Change cannot be solved only with partial changes on the energy production or pullution control, but require a deep transformation of the global social structures.


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