ENVS 1200 Chapter 1: Paying our climate debt

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 1200
• Professor: Anders Sandberg

Document Summary

Naomi klein"s position is that not everyone is to blame for the atmospheric conditions in which it is currently in. We in the highly industrialized north consumed far more than our share of the global budget . Although we were to solely blame for the access carbon in the atmosphere, we produced a crisis that everyone has to go through. She understands that nobody has the true rightful claim to the atmosphere and that sinking our emissions into the atmosphere has benefited our countries greatly; we got to build our profitable industrial bases and grow our economies . We took what wasn"t ours and for that we owe a form of payment back. Addressing the problem of climate debt, she emphasizes that it"s just not about the animal kingdom but of the human population that has been greatly affected. 75-80% of the historical emissions that created the ultimate crisis.