A Planet in Peril!!!

Anderson Cooper, this past Thursday on CNN, hosted an episode of his show “AC: 360″ called “Extreme Challenges: The Next Four Years”. This show discussed some of the challenges that the newly elected president, of the United States of course, will have to deal with from day 1. Issues in this episode range from the US economy to Foreign Policy. But the issue that I focused on was global warming. Two of Anderson’s guests stated that recent studies have shown that to effect global warming the globe has to reduce it emissions by 30%, and need to take serious action in cutting the emissions even further within the next 5-10 years. One solution given was that the US needs to come together with China & India (becuase the Kyoto Protycol is up in 2012) (850 new coal producing factories will be built in India & China during this time) to come up with a solution where the US and other nations give subsidies to these to giants.

The United States should take the lead on tackling global warming because we can’t wait for this “We won’t do something unless China and India aren’t on board as well,” to take affect (the main reason why the US didn’t sign the Kyoto treaty). The reason why China and India aren’t on board is because they say “we won’t see the effects for another 20-30 years and by that time we could have increased our nations capital 10-fold.”

The next president needs to realize just how expensive switching to a “Green Economy” will actually be. It is said that this presidency will be the toughest since Franklin Roosevelt took office. The main thing is that governments and corporations, and nations need to come to an understanding that bringing a change to global warming is the most important thing to society, their nation, and their corporation (a lot of experts see billions that could be made in the “Green Market”).

***The following video is a trailer to another show by Anderson Cooper, on CNN, called “A Planet in Peril”…and it goes more indepth on the issue of global warming and its potential effects on society; some that can be seen already. It even goes into the corporation envolvment in this issue.***

~ by nsinha on February 15, 2008.