POLB81H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Climate Sensitivity, Individual And Political Action On Climate Change, Water Vapor
18 Mar 2013
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Polb81 lecture 10 march 18th 2013. Global governance forum: this teen is suing the state of alaska because climate change threatens his home. By sarah laskow (www. grist. org: this is an instance of: Transnationalism: the oregon"s our children"s trust is an ngo working on climate change to push the government to do something. Ngo is not transnational because the sub-national government is being sued. The question is whether it"s linked to other international organizations. It"s just very different than the transnationalism we use to talk about which is global ngo influencing global institutions. Global and local connection (theme) here you have a very local response to the most global of issue. Last global issue of term: climate change: we"re adding a complicated factor. We"re adding in the element of natural environment which is natural environmental science: environmental science is sophisticated and it doesn"t tell us what to do in climate change.
