“I’m sorry to go on like this, but the simple fact is that the United States, China and much of the developed world have so far failed to respond to this crisis adequately,” writes nick_goldberg for latimesopinion.
With just days remaining before next week’s global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration released a series of reports from the departments of Defense, Treasury and Homeland SecurityFood shortages. Heightened competition for minerals, resources and access to water. Internal strife in developing countries; conflict between nations; collapsed economies and a “threat to the financial stability of the United States.
Even as I type these words, they feel finger-waggy, hysterical, familiar — as if I’m pacing on a street corner with an “end of the world is nigh” sandwich board while normal people walk delicately around me.In today’s United States, the obstacles to action come not just from fanatical anti-science ideologues , and not just from oil and gas executives with Snidely Whiplash mustaches determined to protect their profits at any cost.
It is no longer possible to reverse some of the effects of climate change or to stop their intensification over the next three decades.The Biden administration, bless its dear little heart, says that now, things are going to be different. The largely unfulfilled promises of Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen and Paris are behind us. We’re now placing climate concerns at the center of the American policy agenda.
I’m sorry to go on like this, but the simple fact is that the United States, China and much of the developed world have so far failed to respond to this crisis adequately. The voluntary pledges to reduce carbon emissions made in Paris in 2015 by nearly 200 countries haven’t been met.
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