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...just two countries - China and India, which are electrifying hundreds of cities and putting millions of new cars on their roads, most driven by people who once walked, or rode bicycles and buses. By 2030, those two countries will be responsible for two-thirds of the world's carbon gas emissions, which are the primary human activity causing global warming...
...news is not only environmental. As the world scrambles to boost energy supplies over the next two decades, an ever-greater percentage of its supplies of oil and gas will come from a dwindling number of countries, largely arrayed around the Persian Gulf, as the massive North Sea and Gulf of Mexico deposits are finally exhausted. That will leave the industrialized countries far more dependent on the volatile Middle East in 2030 than they are today, and the likes of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran will dictate terms to companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron, which increasingly operate as contractors...
...China and India, use cars more efficiently, use biofuels, and also convince producing countries to pump more oil," says Birol. But he is uncertain any of that will happen. "I don't see the political will." Then again, nothing fuels political will like a soaring price at the gas pump...
...during his address, entitled “Global Climate Disruption.” Holdren, who served on Clinton’s Advisory Committee on Science and Technology, said that the U.S. should lead the formation of a new set of global standards that would reduce the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to economic output in the short-term and develop tradeable rights to emissions based on population in the long-term. The Kyoto Protocol, which commits nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, will expire in 2012. The U.S. has not ratified the agreement. “The United States must...
...Exhibit A. But her plans on the big domestic-policy issues - health care and energy - have been courageous and detailed, more sophisticated than her opponents' - and very, very smart politically. Just before our interview, Clinton gave a speech launching her energy-independence proposal. It would drastically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by auctioning off permits to pollute and is similar to Obama's - but Obama has added a fillip of honesty by telling his audiences that the program might result in higher energy prices. I asked Clinton why she hadn't been similarly honest, and she immediately turned it around: Obama...