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climate change and urbanization,”- North America produces 26 percentof the world’s greenhouse gases, even though it only has 5 percent ofthe world’s population. This is related to the region’s pattern of urbandevelopment and its fossil fuel-dependent industrial and agriculturalproduction methods.- While many parts of North America are exposed to multiple climate changeimpacts
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Read more“Increasingly, citizens in western North America are recognizing that the use of scarce water for irrigatingagriculture, raising livestock, and keeping lawns and golf courses green in desert environments is unsustainable.Conflicts over transporting water from wet regions to dry ones, or from sparsely inhabited areas to urban areas,ongoing and have halted some new water projects.”
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Read moreacid rain,”is falling precipitation that hasformed through the interaction of rainwateror moisture in the air with sulfur dioxide andnitrogen oxides emitted during the burningof fossil fuels
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Read moresmog,”- is a combination of industrialemissions, car exhaust, and water vapor thatfrequently hovers as a yellow-brown hazeover many North American cities
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Read moreurban sprawl,”- is the encroachment of suburbs on agricultural land. Farms that wereonce highly productive have given way to expansive, low-density urban andsuburban residential developments where pavement, golf courses, office complexes,and shopping centers cover the landscape. The loss of farmland and natural habitatin the urban fringe affects recreational land and the ability to produce local,affordable food for urban populations.-Since 1990s, in many area
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Read moreclimate change and urbanization,”- Both Canada and the United States arevulnerable to climate change; they are exposedto hurricanes and sea level rise. Resilience toclimate change is bolstered over the short termby excellent emergency response and recoverysystems. Long-term resilience is boosted bycareful planning as well as by North America’slarge and diverse economy, which can providealternative livelihoods for people who arehighly exposed to climate impacts.- In the United States, 40 percent of rivers are toopolluted for fishing and swimming. Pollution in the riversof North America comes mainly as storm-water runofffrom agricultural areas, urban and suburbandevelopments
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