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Climate change is defined as weather statistics changing over decades (IPCC, 2021–2022). It is caused in part by natural changes, such as the shape of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun varying and multi-decadal regional oscillations.‘Climate’is a statistical calculation which has always changed at multiple time scales and which has always been characterised by mathematical chaos (IPCC, 2021–2022). Climate change is also indisputably caused by human activities including burning oil, gas, and coal, which release greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere while ecosystems which absorb these gases are destroyed. The greenhouse gases trap some of the Sun’s heat, which influences the weather. The link between climate change and humanitarianism emerges: human action is causing rapid environmental changes, so how could the impact of this action be redressed and how …