"We need all hands on deck because there is a huge amount to do, and not much time to do it. What happens in the Arctic will have broad consequences for the Earth and its climate."
Thursday Morning Open Thread: To Boldly Go…
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Friday, April 9, 2010
Climate Change
It seems like Gore's polar bears, whether or not their plight is real, are being heard. When Hillary Clinton got to speak at a meeting to decide what to do about conditions in the Arctic, her main point was not whether to take action but, rather, who was to take action. Hillary Clinton felt that Canada, the host of the conference, should have invited all those "who have legitimate interests in the region", referring to Sweden, Finland and Iceland, who were left out of the deliberations.
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I like this whole global warming song and dance. It seems everyone knows it's happening, but no one wants to do anything about it. Clinton seems to be putting the people who are directly affected by it as the ones who should do something when it's the rest of the world who are actually the cause of it in the first place. Maybe instead of a "let them deal with it" attitude, we have a "lets work together" attitude.
Its hard to get a "lets work together" attitude when most of those affected don't want to take the responsibility of fixing it anyways. Isn't the US normally the one that steps up? ;/ Most of the time we just hope other countries will follow.
No one wants to deal with it because no one wants to pay for it. Countries don't have the economic freedom to simply throw money at the environment without raising taxes or lowering benefits for other programs, things that don't help you get elected. People in office have no incentive to actually do anything, plenty of incentives to talk about it and deliberate, but it's much easier to get some other country to pay for it if you can get away with it. The United States is not even remotely stepping up in the environmental world but rather stepping down in many ways and purposely not agreeing to international guidelines (Kyoto). Right or wrong atm I really don't want to see us get involved until our economy is strong enough to really commit to going green and not hurting ourselves in the process.
I feel like a major reason that countries are not doing an extreme amount of effort is because no one else is. Although every country contributes to global warming in some way, no country can be solely held responsible for global warming. As a result, no one country wants to attack global warming with great effort. If one or two countries really set a very good example, I think that more countries would follow the green trend.
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