נThe U.S. is not going to be the world’s main superpower.
נA billion individuals will likely be displaced by climate change.
נPolluters must pay to emit carbon dioxide.
נThere will likely be a world worth on carbon (and) it will assist make fossil fuels historical past.
If these initiatives are enacted, it’s going to flip the United States into one thing apart from what now we have loved for 2 centuries. Some feedback by the Davos attendees dismissed the notion {that a} majority of residents ought to resolve such essential issues, leaving choices as an alternative to unaccountable elites.
This is the stuff of dictatorship, little totally different from what communist leaders have completed up to now, and within the current in China.
President-elect Biden has known as climate change a “crisis.” How many crises can we take care of at one time? I believed COVID-19 was a disaster. How about getting that below management earlier than we begin addressing climate, which is altering, however for the higher in lots of locations and provably within the U.S.
According to the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental group “committed to shaping a secure and sustainable energy future for all,” “The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis — a fall of 140 Mt, or 2.9 percent, to 4.8 Gt. U.S. emissions are now down almost 1 Gt from their peak in the year 2000, the largest absolute decline by any country over that period.”