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Let’s Do Something Before It’s Too Late
Global response
to climate
change is in
tatters
by
W illiam
A. C ollins
Expensive news, ev
eryone: The worldwide
cost o f the m elting A rc
tic ice m ay total up to
$60 trillion dollars, according to a
University o f Cam bridge study.
T hat’s nearly a year’s worth
o f global econom ic output w e’ll
all have to spend coping with the
extrem e w eather and other cli
m ate-changing im pacts triggered
by the now unfrozen m ethane
hovering in the atm osphere.
Is the w orld ready for this?
No.
T he global response to the
em ergency wrought by clim ate
change is in tatters. The m ost
re c e n t m a jo r d isa p p o in tm e n t
cam e in Doha, Qatar, as the latest
yearly UN-hosted global w arm
ing sum m it proved to be yet an
other dud at the end o f last year.
W hile the alternatives that could
stave o ff catastro p h ic clim ate
c h a n g e are s e lf-e v id e n t, n o t
enough countries and individuals
are ready to im plem ent them.
Poor, struggling nations finally
_
breaking into the m od
em world see that the
ric h c o u n tr ie s g o t
where they are today
by burning wood, coal,
oil, and gas with aban
don. Now that they’ve
taken what they want
from the environm ent, wealthy
nations are ineffectively telling
the less developed to “do as I say,
not as I do.”
By and large, the people o f
wasteful nations like ours agree
with the tycoons. If cutting back
on fossil fuels m eans m aking sac
rifices, w ell, m aybe not now.
Particularly in the United States,
we love our big cars — and our
air conditioning — and we weep
crocodile tears over all those birds
killed by ugly windmills. Besides,
reducing fossil fuel use could raise
prices. W e’ll pass, thanks.
At the same time, those rich
countries are deeply influenced
by their own producers o f oil,
gas, and coal. These tycoons have and sky, and federal fossil fuel
a good thing going and aren’t subsidies still d w arf those for
about to give up their obscene wind and sun.
profits without a fight, even if the
A pparently, things haven ’ t got
world drowns. And as we have ten bad enough yet. Investors are
seen in the United States, such getting ready to sink big bucks
profits buy a lot o f lobbying — into the construction o f a massive
ju st ask the Koch brothers.
coal-exporting term inal in either
This ram pant inaction eventu W ashington state or Oregon. That
ally has consequences. Scientific port w ould ship W yom ing’s and
instrum ents perched high on a M ontana’s carbon riches to Asia,
pristine H aw aiian m ountaintop where pollution restrictions are
have ju st recorded atm ospheric m uch looser and m anufacturing
carbon dioxide at 400 parts per is boom ing.
million. T h at’s the highest in a
It’s a logical next step, right?
m illion years.
N ow that w e ’ve exported our
For reference, scientists some m anufacturing jo b s to Asia, those
decades ago predicted that at 350 factories need our coal to keep
parts per m illion, global warm ing running.
m ight already be irreversible. And
The scary part is that all that
that doesn’t even account for the C O 2 doesn’t ju st hang around in
drastic effects o f the even more Asia. It heads hom e to N orth
dam aging m ethane let loose by Am erica, stopping a m om ent in
fracking (and, as you m ay have Hawaii to kick up the m eter read
heard, the planetary consequences ings.
o f having too m any corn-fed cows
And everyw here it goes, that
on Earth — the feed m akes them excess carbon nurtures droughts,
im m ensely flatulent).
floods, heat waves, blizzards, hur
So life goes blithely on. Trains ricanes, and tornadoes.
o f coal zip from mine to genera
OtherWords columnist William
tor, oil wells sink into ever riskier A. Collins is a form er state repre
pools, fracking-released m ethane sentative and form er mayor o f
wafts unm easured into the sea Norwalk, Conn.