The never ending battle between the underlying science of global warming and lawmakers’ ties to the fossil fuel industry has to come to end as it is time for the United States to implement a major climate change law. Of course political reality in Washington has repeatedly prevented the administration from tackling climate change. As a result of this week's climate report, it is now evident that this window to forge and implement new policies to protect the globe from food and drinking water shortages, drastic sea level rise, increased poverty and disease, is narrowing quicker than expected.
I think that a nationwide tax on carbon pollution should be the first step. I do not think that this should be held off until the end of the decade. I think this needs to be put on the top of the Administrations priority list.
What do you think the first step should be in order to prevent a catastrophic impact resulting from global warming? Do you think that this should be number one priority in Washington? Why do you think Congress hasn't intervened and set up a nationwide policy?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/us/politics/political-rifts-slow-us-effort-on-climate-laws.html?src=me
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I think that we could use more solar power and stop unneeded pollution. We could try and find ways to stop factories from leaking all the toxins from the smoke stacks. Global warming is not solely because of humans but us living everyday lives helps speeds up the process tremendously. The Government could put in new laws and regulations t clean up the air and stop companies to use non toxic parts.
This is a hard question to tackle. Given the amount of carbon emission in the Asian countries of China and India and from other emerging nations I would argue that any action has to take place at the international level, but it would be hard to pass any meaningful agreement given the fact that these agreements would undoubtedly cripple the growth of these countries.
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