This is a Global Warning

During the presentation on climate change is becomes clear that our effect on the environment is translating all over the world. It is not an issue specific to one type of country or even just the Global South or North. Many people are “climate deniers”, this is a concept I have never heard of but can see a lot of in our high consumption and technically demanding world. With the increase of 2 degrees a decade, the world is becoming more susceptible to flooding and hurricanes in countries that cannot afford to rebuild. I found the link interesting between inequality and environmental issues as poverty, racism, and gender strongly influence people’s power to control “goods” while the “bads” must deal with risk and illness they get in life. As previously discussed it is an issue of imperialism in which the poor countries are servicing the richer countries with the resources they need to contribute to the polluting and the poorer countries then have to deal with the waste. (It’s a lot like the article we read in class on the track of the computer). This article demonstrates the severe divide between people in our world whether it is people who believe in the future impact of global warming or those from richer versus poor nations. The pollution of wealth is controlling the issue and polluting thousands of times more than the world’s poorest. In the Kyoto Protocol there was a debate on how to calculate who is polluting, how much and how to reduce these emissions in the future. I believe that the “contraction and convergence” which would allow the poor nations to sell their rights to wealthy nations in the short term would benefit both parties. I also found it interesting and inevitable how the differences in the way the world is physically changing is having a large impact on both human and the environmental sustainability of our world. Within the case of ice sheets disappearing, discussed throughout the article, I found it astonishing just the numerous issues to come out of that (the polar bears and Russian tankers). I also found it refreshing that a political leader (Al Gore) is able to stand up for an issue that he believes in. By being such a figure head and not afraid to upset corporate leaders he is able to impact Americans in an overarching common sense presentation of global warming.
Q: GLOBAL WARMING: the topic seems so over arching and luminous. Al Gore did a wonderful job of discussing the issue of global warming in a manor that was easily understandable and relatable to the general public, do you feel they will now go out of there way to find ways to make an individual difference?