Assignment task:
Respond To This Paragraph Written By Classmates:
"I think there are many reason why it is so difficult for states to work together to solve climate issues. Wealthy and industrialized states that are mostly responsible for emissions are much more powerful than states that are less responsible. They have more influence over the global systems that use and deliver energy and have more to lose in terms of money and living standards, while the less responsible states have more to lose in terms of climate disasters.
Also, our infrastructure is designed for fossil fuel, which is by far the most convenient and efficient energy source humans have ever discovered. Re-engineering our way of life for net zero carbon while keeping a high standard of living and growing our economies is an extremely complicated prospect. Most of the materials we need for modern life, plastic, steel, concrete, even the fertilizer we need to keep our agriculture productive, relies on fossil fuel either as a direct ingredient or is needed in the industrial process to make. The investment, initiative, and innovation to change this would require what seems like a wartime effort, which would be difficult to get even one country to undertake, given how controversial and disunited people are on the issue, let alone multiple countries.
As climate change disrupts our access to natural resources and changes the value of materials, countries will change how they trade these resources. There is a huge amount of fossil fuel needed just to ship goods around the world to keep globalization alive. It would take many more countries to resource the materials needed to product clean energy technology, it has been hard enough to deal with the few oil exporting countries. Now that more global partnerships will defiantly be needed, this will be a challenge as nationalism and protectionism seem to be on the rise again."