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The Earth’s atmosphere, ocean and land surface interact together to provide the environmental conditions to which life and society have become accustomed. Society has come to depend on these components working together to provide relatively stable (or at least regularly varying) and livable conditions that are conducive to growing and gathering necessary food, providing sufficient freshwater, limiting the domains and viability of disease vectors and, except on rare occasions, providing safe habitat for living and reproducing.
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MacCracken, M.C. (2007). The Climatic Effects of Asteroid and Comet Impacts: Consequences for an Increasingly Interconnected Society. In: Bobrowsky, P.T., Rickman, H. (eds) Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32711-0_16
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