ABSTRACT
Every human activity has a minor or major effect on the environment. Up to a certain level of industrial production, the environment may absorb the effects of human activities through a natural procedure. However, beyond this level, climate change may appear; this change is understood as a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods from some decades to centuries or even millions of years, (375). The origins of climate change can be traced to human activities but also to factors exogenous to the human being, such as oceanic processes, solar radiation, plate tectonics, and volcanic activity. The question is whether at this point we have reached a level of human impact on the environment, beyond which climate change becomes irreversible.
