What Climate Change?
Unprecedented typhoons, earthquakes and volcanoes disrupting people’s lives and some people are still asking what climate change?
America has to lose its appetite and dependence on oil. Some states in the U.S. create more carbon emissions than several developing countries put together. The U.S. Senate cannot be allowed to again hold up legislation mandating the reduction of carbon emissions, as it did with the Kyoto accord. At the time, the Senate would not approve the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol unless it contained binding targets and timetables for developing countries as well as developed nations. The excuse given at the time was that signing Kyoto “would result in serious harm to the economy of the U.S.” It was the only developed country not to climb aboard.
America’s hot-air empty-suit career politicians, especially those from America’s most polluting states, have to acknowledge the urgency for them to act now. There is hope.
America and China must get their scientists to not only address all the ramifications of global warming at the dawn of this new century, but how the two countries can put aside their respective radical notions of how to achieve progress. It’s time that science and the corporate world (sorry Big Oil), regardless of whether they follow the capitalist or Confucian model, begin thinking and acting in ways that can pay huge dividends for the people of the world, not to mention themselves and their shareholders. Otherwise, they will lose it all. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is a 21st-century wake-up call.
An extensive study on a breed of wild sheep in Scotland shows that global warming has caused the animals to shrink in size by up to 5 percent, a finding that has frightening implications. Evolutionary theory says wild sheep should “gradually get bigger, as the stronger, larger animals survive into adulthood and reproduce.” But the study shows the “local environment has had a stronger effect on the sheep than the evolutionary pressure to grow larger.” If global warming can do this to sheep, I’m mortified to think what it might be doing to grains, vegetables, fruits, and of course, We Human Citizens. Humanity and the future of the world’s climate rests on the ability of the governments of the U.S. and China to work together as partners, shepherds, leading their flocks.
Rising global temperatures must be jointly arrested by the U.S. and China. Only they have the resources, scientific know how, and combined global number of local and interlocal citizens clamoring for more government intervention and economic stimulus support to ensure their personal and economic survival. China can’t handle this alone, notwithstanding what many countries are asking it to do. It knows its only trusted partner can be America. But the U.S. must meet China half-way.
America has to lose its appetite and dependence on oil. Some states in the U.S. create more carbon emissions than several developing countries put together. The U.S. Senate cannot be allowed to again hold up legislation mandating the reduction of carbon emissions, as it did with the Kyoto accord. At the time, the Senate would not approve the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol unless it contained binding targets and timetables for developing countries as well as developed nations. The excuse given at the time was that signing Kyoto “would result in serious harm to the economy of the U.S.” It was the only developed country not to climb aboard.
America’s hot-air empty-suit career politicians, especially those from America’s most polluting states, have to acknowledge the urgency for them to act now. There is hope.
America and China must get their scientists to not only address all the ramifications of global warming at the dawn of this new century, but how the two countries can put aside their respective radical notions of how to achieve progress. It’s time that science and the corporate world (sorry Big Oil), regardless of whether they follow the capitalist or Confucian model, begin thinking and acting in ways that can pay huge dividends for the people of the world, not to mention themselves and their shareholders. Otherwise, they will lose it all. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is a 21st-century wake-up call.
An extensive study on a breed of wild sheep in Scotland shows that global warming has caused the animals to shrink in size by up to 5 percent, a finding that has frightening implications. Evolutionary theory says wild sheep should “gradually get bigger, as the stronger, larger animals survive into adulthood and reproduce.” But the study shows the “local environment has had a stronger effect on the sheep than the evolutionary pressure to grow larger.” If global warming can do this to sheep, I’m mortified to think what it might be doing to grains, vegetables, fruits, and of course, We Human Citizens. Humanity and the future of the world’s climate rests on the ability of the governments of the U.S. and China to work together as partners, shepherds, leading their flocks.
Rising global temperatures must be jointly arrested by the U.S. and China. Only they have the resources, scientific know how, and combined global number of local and interlocal citizens clamoring for more government intervention and economic stimulus support to ensure their personal and economic survival. China can’t handle this alone, notwithstanding what many countries are asking it to do. It knows its only trusted partner can be America. But the U.S. must meet China half-way.
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