POL108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: James Hansen, Rachel Carson, Garrett Hardin

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Politics and International Relations/Politics
• Course: POL108
• Professor: any

Document Summary

Lecture outline: the scienti c consensus and implications, global climate governance & paris agreements, why climate change is such a hard problem, and a concluding rant about the global governance of innovation . Introduction: the basics: climate change is a truly global problem that challenges the institutions of global policy making. China and the us together account for about 44% of global emissions their responses are key: the intergovernmental panel on climate change (ipcc) established under the wmo and. My argument: getting to zero emission using today"s technologies is impossible (on a planet of 7+ billion people). My perspective (ecomodernism: ecomodernists think we should accelerate scienti c solutions that allow us to look after the environment. Arctic sea-ice declines/ opening of northwest passage/ oil rigs move in. Implications: changing weather patterns: while some land will become more productive (e. g. siberia, parts of. Possible reasons: mitigation measures seek to limit climate change by reducing atmospheric concentrations of.