Climate Change, Coming Home: Global Warming's Effects on Populations is an article on climatic changes written by Sarah DeWeerdt. The article mainly focuses on the world’s environmental conditions with the view to establish a clear understanding and look into the future of the global climatic conditions. Therefore, the article explores various concepts thought to have resulted in the continuously degrading climatic conditions and the possible ways of avoiding the problems of climatic changes. The article also underscores the contemporary and expected consequences to result from the serious climatic changes. To ensure effective communication and her message transfer, Sarah DeWeerdt employs various social principles and concepts that include human etiology, globalization and global stratification.

Human etiology refers to the universal and interdisciplinary concept used by social scientists to explain in holistic manner the relationship that exists between human beings and their immediate natural, built and social environments. While employing the concepts of human etiology, Sarah DeWeerdt explores and explains human activities that are detrimental to the environment. She indicates that climatic pollution is a result of poor management strategies employed by human beings in tackling burning environmental issues. Moreover, the writer highlights that human beings, especially in the developing countries, are increasingly burning fossil fuels such as oil products that massively emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Sarah DeWeerdt further indicates that human beings in the developing countries, who are the largest polluters of the environment, are the ones who are likely to suffer from the severe effects of climatic changes. She categorically mentions that the negative effects of climatic changes have begun to manifest in the developing countries as the habiting