Climate Change 101: Urgency and Response

We have only just begun to awaken to the unfolding calamity
inherent in human-induced global climate change. . . [B]inding
international measures adequate to counter GHG emission
trends do not yet exist. That failure is largely a function of the
United States’ refusal to accept any legally binding limit on
GHG emissions….

Published
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Photo credit to Dan Galpern

Originally Published in the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation (2008)

Close-up of dried, cracked earth.

Excerpt

We have only just begun to awaken to the unfolding calamity inherent in human-induced global climate change… [B]inding international measures adequate to counter GHG emission trends do not yet exist. That failure is largely a function of the United States’ refusal to accept any legally binding limit on GHG emissions… Continue reading