Climate Change- Take a Stand

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Through the use of my diagram, I illustrated how the burning of fossil fuels can have an impact on many things throughout the world. Since our world is so dependent on the industry and the burning of fossil fuels, there has been a significant increase in the emission of greenhouse into the atmosphere. Due to the increase in greenhouse gases, there has been a great climate change as well. As humans have become more intelligent over the years, there has been notice taken to the severity of our impact on the planet with the emission of greenhouse gasses. Therefore there has been many plans to try and mitigate greenhouse gases to solve the crisis of climate change. Through the efforts of the leaders of the world, the United Nations became involved which lead to the creation of the Copenhagen accord. The accord was created to gather a plan from each country on how they would mitigate greenhouse gas emission into the atmosphere. This accord benefits the United States in many ways so the United States spied on leaders of the United Nations to get more information. Through these efforts, the United States blackmailed and bribed poorer countries to agree with the accord even though they had not caused any of the greenhouse gas emissions or climate change. Soon their efforts became validated and the other countries were all on board with the accord. Through the raised support of other countries, the accord was adopted and the mitigation of greenhouse gases began.

When thinking about the different things the United States did to try and get the Copenhagen accord to become adopted, the measures the United States will take is clear. The United States held a great interest in many of its allies supporting the accord it created in order to save the environment from greenhouse gases. I think that the American people have a right to see the measures that the United States took in order to get what they wanted accomplished. Many citizens already have an idea of just how sneaky their government can be when they want something to be done. The release of the information just validates that point greatly. While the United States should not have used blackmail and bribery to achieve their goal, it did help the process of convincing the leaders of the world to support the accord. The United States realized there was a problem with human sustainability on earth and that there has to be more actions they need to take in order to solve the problem. Since climate change impacts the entire world, the world population must take action collectively with similar plans instead of individually. One country can not solve the climate change for the whole world. The leaders of the world have to work together to make sure that life is still sustainable on earth. Instead of bribing the poorer countries to get on board with the accord, the United States could have recognized the fact that the poorer countries are trying to develop themselves so that they can have a better quality of life than they already have. Those efforts would have been more honest and caused less of a fuss than blackmail and bribery.

2 thoughts on “Climate Change- Take a Stand

  1. Hi, my name is Jessica and here is my blog post: http://geog030.dutton.psu.edu/2016/04/08/climate-change-jessica-moritz/.
    I agree with you that one country can’t solve all of the world’s problems. It is a shame that the other countries did not realize how important it is to save our environment from fossil fuels, or maybe the United States wouldn’t have had to do what they did. In my blog post, I talked about how the actions they took were unethical because blackmailing/bribery is just wrong. However, I agree with you that the outcome of this all was a good thing because now people are more aware.

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