Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Response to "Too Hot to Handle."

This article I just found came out of the magazine "Mother Jones." This article helped me quite a lot, not in learning new ideas about alternative energy, but getting a more solid base of knowledge about how the world views climate change as a whole. I also found about ppm, which is an important measure system based on the amount of CO2 in the world. right now it is around 387 ppm, and a healthy amount for the world would be 350 ppm. The amount that is taken as the highest possible right now without the world changing drastically is 450 ppm, but if so much has already happened just at 387 ppm, 450 ppm would be much worse. Developing countries are feeling like climate change and emissions shouldn't get in the way of them developing because after all the current rich and powerful got that way by burning the majority of the greenhouse gases in the world right now. They aren't responsible for the problem, so they shouldn't help fix it...I completely disagree. This article made a point about how important the Copenhagen talks are, and how if solid solutions aren't taken out of these talks, the world could change dramatically for the worse.

1 comment:

  1. An interesting point - Recklessness and greed led to pollution, global warming,etc. and developing countries feel that they deserve to get ahead, too, and if pollution is a by-product, then so be it -eeek! I think that everyone needs to move forward from where we are right now - and everyone needs to be part of the solution - even though for some that's a bitter pill to swallow. I'm glad this article gave you info you could use. Where will you look next? Any commom threads yet emerging? Mrs. Jewitt

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