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Of or relating to the period before the Industrial Revolution and the global industrialisation that followed..
Civilization has already exceeded a global warming of ~1.0◦C above pre-industrial conditions[.]
At last year’s summit in Glasgow, countries agreed to focus on limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but recent UN reports have shown that current policies would raise temperatures by about 2.5C.
a preindustrial nation
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Preindustrial means Of or relating to the period before the Industrial Revolution and the global industrialisation that followed..
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Civilization has already exceeded a global warming of ~1.0◦C above pre-industrial conditions[.]
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