Recently, the president of The United States, Donald Trump, has pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement, a global plan to combat climate. The main goal of the Paris Agreement is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by lowering the increase in temperature through reducing carbon air emissions and providing participating countries with the ability to combat the effects of climate change. In fact, the United States is in the minority; 170 parties out of 197 parties have agreed to ratify the Paris Agreement. (unfccc.int) The United States should remain in the Paris Climate Agreement as its beneficial for the country to do so, as the majority of United States citizens support it, climate change is a serious issue that needs to be addressed, and because the Paris Agreement offers flexibility for countries while still addressing climate change. One reason why the United States should have stayed in the Paris Agreement is many Americans wanted their country to stay in the agreement, although there is no denying that some Americans were very opposed to the Agreement. According to a poll by the Huffington Post, sixty-one percent of Americans declared that the United …show more content…
The Paris Agreement, although not perfect, would be a giant step towards combating climate change. The Agreement works to lower carbon emissions from all of the countries involved. The reason it aims to address carbon emissions is because carbon emissions have been linked to the overall warming of the planet. As the effects of a warming climate are a danger to all living things, and the planet in general. Some of the effects of climate change are listed below to give the reader of why climate change should be addressed, through the Paris Agreement or something like the
Smaller states like Delaware and New Jersey objected to the Virginia Plan saying that the large states would easily outvote them in Congress if the number of votes were based on population. After weeks of debate, William Patterson of New Jersey put forth a plan that called for three branches including a legislature with only one house where each state would have one vote. The New Jersey Plan with a single house legislature and equal representation was more like Congress under the Articles.
Trade is the most common form of transferring ownership of a product. The concepts are very simple, I give you something (a good or service) and you give me something (a good or service) in return, everyone is happy. However, trade is not limited to two individuals. There are trades that happen outside national borders and we refer to that as international trading. Before a country does international trading, they do research to understand the opportunity costs and marginal costs of their production versus another countries production. Doing this we can increase profit, decrease costs and improve overall trade efficiency. Currently, there are negotiations going on between 11 countries about making a trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific
After the Declaration of Independence, U.S. became a nation but didn 't have a government to guide the nation. People, the early settlers, suffered by the excessive power of the Monarch so they wanted to incorporate the ideas of ordered government, limited government, and the representative government. Based on these ideas the Article of Confederation was created. Although it was too weak and inadequate to manage all of the states. As the weakness became palpable, the nation required stronger government system and that 's when the Constitution was created as it saved the nation from the crisis. One thing that made the creation of the Constitution possible was the Great Compromise, which was
Climate change is no doubt one of the greatest threats to this planet today. Coastal cities flooding due to melting ice caps and rising water levels, cities experiencing extreme weather, and ocean life dying because of warmer water temperatures, it is not wonder why so many scientist and country leaders are worried about the safety and future of their country. The U.S. is just one of these countries where climate change endangers 333 million people. That is why the U.S. must take action to assure the future of their residents and safety of their numerous coastal cities. Due to the rising coastal water levels, previous legislative mistakes, and the risk of further climate change consequences, President Trump should acknowledge the need for the
The Prime Minister, Theresa May is adamant that because the British people voted leave during the Brexit referendum it gives her a mandate to by-pass Parliament.
in Christianson 255). It was quite obvious that the United States did not want to be there – and for good reason. The reason has everything to do with cost and benefits. The Protocols would require that the United States reduce its 2008 – 2012 overall greenhouse emissions by about a third of the current levels. The economic costs are quite significant, and the benefits are not.
It is the responsibility of the developed world to change. They have the resources and technology to significantly curb emissions and dampen the effects of climate change. As the world’s second largest emitter of Co2, and as the world’s largest economy, the US must become a leader in the battle against climate change. However, historical incidents of environmental degradation indicate that will power is simply not enough. Unless environmental problems are seen and felt, the US population has been slow and reluctant to act. Unfortunately this lack of will power is still present. As a citizen of the United States, I see no hope for change without the help and intervention of government. Without economic incentive, individuals and firms will not change. I believe that the US government must intervene and implement emission reduction policies, and work toward limiting emissions to the earth’s natural sink function.
The Treaty of Versailles was a treaty created at the end of World War I, in hopes of establishing peace among nations. Although it sought after harmony, the United States’ Senate refused to ratify the treaty due to the distasteful idea of the United States’ involvement in the League of Nations, and Woodrow Wilson’s unwillingness to compromise with Henry Cabot Lodge’s revisions of The Treaty of Versailles.
In addition to lowering greenhouse gas levels and using cleaner energy sources, there are things we can do as people to stop climate change. We could reduce our use of electricity at our homes by turning off the lights when we leave the room, turning down/up the heating/ac when it is unnecessary, and using less water. Also, we could install solar panels in our homes and donate money to environmental protection agencies. Hopefully, the people of our world will soon realize climate change is a pressing issue that must be solved as soon as
Trump, along with the Republican party, does not believe that climate change is real and happening and is a major problem now and will only get worst if we do not try to fix it. If we go on like nothing is happening and claim that climate change is not a reality, then we will have droughts where we grow our food, or we could lose parts of Florida and other low lying places by the ocean by the melting ice caps. He must also see that there are other ways and or resources to produce energy instead of just using up all of our fossil fuels. There are new energy sources that are green and that we will never run out of. As Michael Greshko goes on to say, “The stakes for the United States, and the world, are enormous: If humankind does not reduce its greenhouse gas emissions immediately, climate scientists say, Earth could face as much as 11 degrees Fahrenheit of warming by 2100 relative to preindustrial temperatures, leading to increases in droughts and wildfires, rising seas, and major disruptions to global agriculture.” (Greshko 2). Trump needs to see the study from scientists, and believe in Global Warming; if he doesn't, I believe that not only will the United States be destroyed, but the whole world will die; people will starve and the human race may go extinct at the
Once again, President Donald Trump stunned not only the nation, but the whole world on June 1st by declaring his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, a global agreement enacted to decrease the amount of greenhouse gas emissions and minimize any further harm towards the planet in an effort to slow down global climate changes. "We're getting out", Donald Trump said as he declared the United States' depart from the Paris climate agreement. The Paris climate agreement started in 2015 and was adopted by 195 nations; that’s nearly every country in the world. The decision made by President Trump and his administration to leave the Paris climate agreement will not benefit our country nor the world in any way. This
To sum up, the EU drawn attention on climate changes and has essential goals to help other regions and countries to change the world. According to the Kyoto Protocol, the EU and other countries have big dreams about changing climate in positive way. That how the EU manages to accomplish the defined aims on the Kyoto Protocol depends on the EU leaders and Europeans also on the major emitting countries and other powerful world’s countries which have essential impact on climate changes.
The international cooperation is mandated to address climate change because apart from being caused by countless locations found in every country of the world, its consequences will be so adverse, that only with international assistance, the world will fully adapt to further environmental conditions. International collective action on climate change has only been a success in a few parts of the world: the Mediterranean Action plan for reducing pollution within the Mediterranean Sea and the Montreal protocol on substances that delete the ozone layer, an agreement that limits damage to the earth’s protective layer of stratospheric ozone. First and foremost, the international cooperation has failed to combat the large cut in global emissions. Emission of carbon dioxide is the main cause of human-induced climate change.
In conclusion, global climate change is a very long discussion with many ways to improve the environment, but a long journey to finding a solution. Although we can 't do away with our main sources like power plants, cars, and factories we must continue to find solutions to making our environment safer and suitable to live in. Hopefully in the near future we will have a better understanding of how to address our global climate changes, but for now, we can focus our ideas on preventative ways to not harm ourselves and our
Nowadays, we can see a lot of campaigns to reduce this humans’ contribution of greenhouse gases to atmosphere. These campaign’s missions are usually about reducing the energy that we use, convincing us to use recyclable energy, stopping the deforestation... These missions are all about mitigating to climate change. Climate change mitigation is the actions to limit the significant rate of long term climate change. In other words, climate change mitigation is all of the actions about lowering the humans’ greenhouse gas contribution to atmosphere. It is now too late for humans’ to prevent the effects of climate change, but these effects can be reduced in the future with mitigation. The most popular treaty, disenchant of humanity, is Kyoto Protocol. The main goal of Kyoto Protocol is reducing the human emitted greenhouse gases, in other word, mitigation. Also in ways that underlying national differences in GHG emissions, wealth, and capacity to make th...