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Tepid Response to Stop a Cooking Planet
World leaders
fall short on
climate change
E MILY S CHWARTZ G RECO
After a quarter-cen-
tury of buzz over global
warming, the climate
talkers are at it again,
doing whatever it is
they do. Visitors to the
next big climate change
summit, in an act of
glorious irony, will
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France — one of the meeting’s big
corporate sponsors with deep ties
to fossil fuels.
The UN-organized meeting
won’t take place until December,
but Pope Francis is already doing
his best to make sure global pow-
ers give it plenty of bandwidth.
Days before a conservative
Italian newspaper leaked the
Pope’s game-changing encyc-
lical, the leaders of the seven
richest industrial nations (G7)
were already talking about the
need for “deep cuts in global
greenhouse gas emissions” and
“a decarbonization of the global
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economy over the course of this
century.”
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want expiration-date stickers
slapped on the oil, gas, and coal
industries.
Identifying the culprits that
pump carbon into today’s
economy or promising
to do something about it
themselves would have
been bolder. Failing to
name names shows how
cowed these presidents
and prime ministers are.
Still,
collectively
kicking the world’s fossil-fuel
addiction means no more min-
ing coal by blasting the tops off
mountains. No more offshore oil
platforms prone to bursting into
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munities they can’t ban frackers
from operating near freshwater
sources.
“What is occurring is in many
ways unprecedented in the history
of international cooperation in re-
spect to vision and scale,” chirped
Christiana Figueres, the UN’s top
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Figueres makes it sound like a
big-fossil deal. As Pope Francis
might say, Hallelujah. But wait.
They’re talking about the year
2100.
How old will you be 85 years
from now? Oh, right. You’ll be
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be the new 30 at the turn of the
next century. No one writing this
accord will get to personally de-
clare the world’s energy matrix
fossil-free. Probably none of their
children either.
Punting to a generation not yet
born isn’t leadership. Real to-do
lists are doable during your own
lifespan.
Did Abraham Lincoln promise
when he delivered the Emancipa-
tion Proclamation that all enslaved
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When the Supreme Court de-
manded an end to the segregation
of American schoolchildren with
all deliberate speed, did the jus-
tices add “so get it over and done
with before 2039 rolls around”?
And when Ronald Reagan
shouted in Cold War-weary Ber-
lin “Tear down this wall,” did he
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than the year 2072”?
No, no, and no.
Sure, re-wiring the global grid
takes time. But given what’s at
stake and the speed with which
the costs of wind and solar power
are dropping, 85 years is too long.
How about some gumption and a
bigger hurry?
Apparently G7 leaders and
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a brisker pace that would have
meant kicking the worldwide
fossil-fuel habit by 2050. Both
groups wound up saying — I’m
paraphrasing here — “nah.” Aim-
ing for 2100 is a compromise be-
tween doing nothing and doing
what’s necessary right now.
Our country, the world’s No. 2
carbon polluter after China, can
transition to full reliance on ener-
gy derived from wind, water, and
sunlight by 2050, half a century
faster than the G7’s timetable. A
group of researchers from several
leading universities even drew up
a state-by-state roadmap.
As the mother of two kids still
in elementary school, bequeathing
this headache to them seems bad
enough. Why are global leaders
shunting this tough job to our chil-
dren’s grandchildren?
Emily Schwartz Greco is the
managing editor of OtherWords,
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vice run by the Institute for Policy
Studies.
