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There are many environmental issues confronting the contemporary world, and we can only scratch the surface of these here. Some are local or regional in character, while others are international or genuinely global in their scale and impact. What they all share, and what makes them specifically environmental issues, is that they involve both social relationships and non-human, natural phenomena. In this sense, they are hybrids of society and environment (Irwin 2001: 26). Keep this point in mind when you read the rest of this section. We start with the major issue of our time, global warming.