Political Science 2137 Lecture Notes - Climate Change Mitigation, Clean Development Mechanism, Global Warming
19 Mar 2014
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Global warming may be the most significant challenge humanity has ever faced. We have made incredible technological advancements in the 21st century. More and more people being lifted off bottom rung of society. On the aggregate: this is a good thing; we want to see people. We are changing the world, literally and materially. We are changing the atmosphere, oceans, millions of species in the earth (biodiversity) Doing so, we are endangering our own life support systems. On one hand, we have incredible advancements but on other hand, we are destroying ourselves and our environment. Most people reach this conclusion that never before humanity has faced this challenge of pushing development but on the other hand, we"re pushing towards a collapse of nature. Everything we do in society runs on energy. In the process, we are releasing carbon emissions. The impact was a lot less significant when the world had 10 million people.
