Collective action of leaders can change
Jose Ceralde
13 Feb 2010
Mr. Rayos,
I am all for doing my part for the minimization of green house gasses but I doubt that even if JFK was alive today he could, as a citizen, do what the leadership of nations could bring to bear on this issue.
During the global warming conference, the participating countries did not come to a joint agreement not because of the science presented. It was the formulas and the process determining who will bear the cost that was in contention.
Yes, almost all the countries of our shared EARTH will not wait for the scientific silver bullet to prove global warming will affect us because of the drastic changes affecting the melting poles.
In the US, they are changing the formulas for building dikes, dams, bridges, etc. for calculating the century storm to fifty-year storms. This is not politics, this is the effect of changes in our weather.
It may be not be caused by global warming but we are sure getting more strong hurricanes, record snowfall, and tornadoes.
But then the record snow in the Northeast US is exactly what the scientist had said is the effect of global warming. Record snowfalls in the last 5 days but fluctuating hot temp in the winter are not considered a rare phenomenon of Indian summer anymore.
Back to JFK on government and individual efforts. During the Black blizzards in the US, a lot of individuals came forward to try to solve the dry spell blowing the Midwest US. It took the leadership of President Roosevelt to educate the masses on soil conservation, huge government intervention to plant trees, and water management with the fortune of return of rain to stop the sandstorm blowing east.
It is like the Green Peace and the whaling nations of the world. Green Peace thinks it could stop the whaling nations but does anybody think it had made a dent?
Individual acts of changes had not made a dent on the weather but collective efforts of the leaders of the world might do the trick. They might even stop the EARTH from changing polarity sooner than predicted.
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