Political Science 2137 Lecture Notes - Sea Level Rise, Global Environmental Politics, Ipcc Fourth Assessment Report

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2137
• Professor: Cameron Harrington

Document Summary

Climate change: most important issue in environmental politics today. Climate change is an international crisis too big for any country to tackle alone. We will succeed together or we will fail together . If the un was created for anything, it was to respond to this . The temptation is great to focus on our perceived national interests and turn inwards we reject this conception of the world, because history has shown that it leads to tragedy . Dabwido of pacific island of nauru: bloc of countries he represents (association of. These nations are on the frontline of climate change. The appeals that leaders from association of pacific island states are really the human concerns related to climate change. When we talk about it, we refer to graphs, scenarios, etc. They are abstract in a lot of. Difficult to see climate change in a day-to-day basis.