Is species survival a partisan issue?
The worst thing about the Trump Presidency (IMO) is that he is about to move the US out of its international obligations on climate change. The international community has already been slow to act but it has at least got an agreement in place that was a small step in the right direction. Tearing it up will have consequences for years to come.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/13/trump-looking-at-quickest-way-to-quit-paris-climate-agreement-says-report#comment-87446139
It is already predicted that the temperature of the planet will rise by 2 degrees C because of that. This will mean more floods in Bangladesh, more storms and more land becoming uninhabitable. There will be more wars over land and resources as people are displaced and (with huge irony) this will further increase the demand to emigrate to the cooler Global North. You are not going to stop immigration by making the third world unlivable.
Climate change should not be a partisan political issue and this is not a hoax by the Chinese. An issue of species survival is too important to be tarred as a niche concern for the young Liberal middle-class. The international science community (bar a tiny minority of denialists in the pocked of the fossil-fuel industry) all agree that climate change is significantly increased by human activity. More needs to be done, not less and it needed to be done yesterday. Remember this moment in two decades time.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus-intermediate.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/13/trump-looking-at-quickest-way-to-quit-paris-climate-agreement-says-report#comment-87446139
It is already predicted that the temperature of the planet will rise by 2 degrees C because of that. This will mean more floods in Bangladesh, more storms and more land becoming uninhabitable. There will be more wars over land and resources as people are displaced and (with huge irony) this will further increase the demand to emigrate to the cooler Global North. You are not going to stop immigration by making the third world unlivable.
Climate change should not be a partisan political issue and this is not a hoax by the Chinese. An issue of species survival is too important to be tarred as a niche concern for the young Liberal middle-class. The international science community (bar a tiny minority of denialists in the pocked of the fossil-fuel industry) all agree that climate change is significantly increased by human activity. More needs to be done, not less and it needed to be done yesterday. Remember this moment in two decades time.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus-intermediate.htm
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