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Tyson, Neil DeGrasse, 101

Union of Concerned Scientists,
48–49
United Nations Human Rights
Committee, 139
United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
15, 32, 36, 69, 90–92, 99, 106, 159
Uruguay, 164
US Geological Survey, 59, 128
Venice, Italy, 102, 136
Venus, 20
violence due to climate change, 149,
149–151
Boko Haram, 151
Darfur genocide, 147
Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham
(ISIS), 150–151
Syrian civil war, 150

walruses, 123, 125
water cycle, 51, 86
water rationing, 65, 76–78
wildfires, 34, 66, 68, 78. See Amazon
and changing weather patterns,
34, 68, 80
animal extinctions, 11, 80, 83
Camp Fire, 66–67
costs of, 67
deaths from, 11, 66–67, 80, 80–82
prevention, 68–69
seasons, 65, 68
to clear land, 79
See Amazon
World Bank, 64, 73, 107, 137,
141–142
World Resources Institute, 78

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