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Negotiated in 1997, the Kyoto Protocol had sought to halt the growth of carbon emissions in the industrialized nations. The Protocol’s original goal was to reduce, by the year 2010, the total emissions of these industrialized countries by a total of around 5 percent below their 1990 emissions. Any reduction in global emissions is, of course, commendable. However, it was always clear that even if implemented fully, the Kyoto targets would make the most minor of dents in this most major of problems. With the world’s largest carbon emitter, the United States, still steadfast...
...focused on China and India. Both countries are easy targets because they have over a billion people each, and just about anything when multiplied by a billion becomes a very large number. The fact of the matter is that the average American still emits nearly 10 times as much carbon as the average Chinese and over 20 times as much as the average Indian. It is both unfair and absurd to demand that we in the U.S. cannot restrict our emissions until the Chinese and Indians take on “equitable” responsibilities. In fairness, not everyone making...
Environmental problems, unfortunately, are no longer local. They have expanded now to global scale. The end product of combustion of fossil fuels is carbon dioxide, which has the potential to alter global climate with implications for temperature, rainfall, and even for sea level. Warmer temperatures and uncertain supplies of precipitation can exacerbate the problems for those least equipped to cope. We have a moral imperative, I believe, to anticipate these problems and to do what we can to mitigate their consequences...
...United States is the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide. With five percent of the world’s population, we account for 22 percent of emissions. Electricity generation, associated mainly with combustion of coal, accounts for 40 percent of US emissions. Transportation, fueled primarily by oil, is responsible for an additional 32 percent, with the balance due to a combination of home/office heating and cooling (11 percent) and various industrial processes (18 percent...
There are four obvious strategies to reduce carbon emissions in the U.S. while still preserving energy functions we have come to value. We could encourage substitution of energy efficient for energy inefficient electrical devices (replace incandescent lights with fluorescent lights, for example). We could institute standards for construction of more energy-efficient buildings. We could explore policy instruments to encourage a transition from gas-guzzling SUVs to more fuel-efficient alternatives (hybrids, for example). Or, most ambitious, we could take steps to initiate a transition from carbon-intensive energy sources to carbon-free alternatives such as wind, solar, and/or nuclear...