GLBL ST 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: National Climate Assessment, Earth Summit, Terra Incognita
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Denial, ideologies, politics funded buy koch brothers. 1988: world conference on the changing atmosphere in toronto, ipcc held their first session, time"s man of the year was planet of the year: endangered earth . 1992: rio earth summit: un framework convention on climate change, signed by us under george h. bush. 1997: kyoto protocol: first greenhouse gas emissions reduction treaty, clinton never submitted to senate, george w. bush announced us withdrawal. 2009: copenhagen accord: significant goals, but all voluntary, support from obama. 2015: paris agreement: binding and non-binding aspects, 195 nations agreed, ratified by obama by executive action, 2017 trump administration announced withdrawal. Anthropocene: human activities are so pervasive and profound that they rival great forces of. Nature and are pushing earth into planetary terra incognita. Human nature: humans are not well suited to deal with an issue like climate change, we care about the present more than the future. Enlightenment and or judeo-christian ideology of man"s domination over nature.
