POL380H1 Lecture Notes - Water Scarcity, Agricultural Productivity, Antonio Gramsci
12 Dec 2012
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Widespread acknowledgement of the climate change is a relatively new phenomenon. Local global policy, power politics in a classic sense and construction of a int"l global norm. Some states are spending billions to deal with climate change and preserve energy to cope. A target is not a policy, it is an easy way to get an agreement like copenhagen. It was a great failure, lack of consensus. Complexity is due to winners and losers, even though it should affect everyone in the same way, so lack of consensus doesn"t bring states together to adopt policy. China has began to develop climate change policy. Asymmetry of vulnerability: if humans are the main culprit, then the west is responsible, (position of the south) need to balance responsibility for past behavior working to a common solution for the future. Climate change is a long term condition/problems; as a result consequences of decision making is critical.
