气候行动怎样能使美国强大

Dec 15, 2016 Vinod Thomas

新加坡——气候变化是人类所面临的最大挑战。但身为世界第二大温室气体排放国和气候政策关键行动者的下任美国总统不相信气候变化正在发生，或至少不相信人类在其中发挥推动作用。如果唐纳德·特朗普真的希望“让美国再次伟大”，就像他在竞选口号中所宣扬的那样，他需要改变自己的态度，并且接受气候议程。

迄今为止，形势看起来并不乐观。尽管有大量科学数据的支撑，特朗普依然声称人类活动导致全球变暖缺少证据证明。他甚至称气候变化是一个“骗局”，是中国人的发明，并以破坏美国制造业竞争力为目标（虽然他后来收回了这一指控）。尽管如此，他并未对人类驱动气候变化的整体怀疑进行重新思考。

为了反映这种思路，特朗普已经宣布打算取消燃煤电厂的碳排放限制、加快生产化石燃料以及收回对风能和太阳能的支持。他还承诺要让美国退出去年12月巴黎签署的气候变化协定。这样的倒行逆施或将对应对气候变化的全球努力造成灾难性的打击。

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Florian Strahberger Dec 20, 2016

"Of course, in the longer term..."
... "In the long run we are all dead". Keynes did address the economists - but for a politician in a so called democracy of our days this is definitely even more the maxim.
Of course, in all those fields where climate action will lead to a reduction of fuels and thus a reduction of costs based on building-up the needed knowledge-base to achieve these goals, some competitive advantage will be the return.
But, today the prices for oil are low - and we have a fragile economy within a liquidity-trap...
... from his point of view, Trump is pretty right not to buy the German stuff but to rely on the technology his own people are capable to produce, like SUVs with a max reach of 20 miles per gallon ...
With having good luck, the oil-prices will stay far below 100 USD for the next 4 years ...
Nothing can make America great again. This Great America was only a short period of time, with a brain-drain and a situation in which the competitors were bombed down to ruins. And today, the nation is not of so much relevance any more - if the situation of a region is great or not so great is a per capita thing. Even Porters cluster-theory is more and more outdated because with CSCW you can build up these clusters virtually.
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Aale Hanse Dec 15, 2016

The current trend with solutions to climate change is fraught with fallacies that do not address the root problem. Climate change has been hijacked by the money men just like globalization had and we finally see the outcomes to that. By proposing a solution that enhances profits and ignoring the pollution and environmental degradation is not a long term solution that is sustainable or even effective in any way. We are polluting our environment under the disguise of economic growth and refuse to stop it let alone reverse it. Our penchant for the trajectory we want our lives to continue with is not sustainable and with eight billion plus people all wanting the same then sumpin has to give.
A better solution would be to forget about the solutions to climate change that is being pushed now and clean up the environmental degradation that is out there now, right in front of us that cannot be refuted. The flow on effect of having an expense instead of a profit will bring about the changes that are just a lip service now.
All through the centuries the human race has not been a team player with the environment and to expect it to change now is impossible: so I guess Darwin’s theory will prevail....
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