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Roberts & Parks (2007) Contributors to Climate Change<\/p><\/div>\n
Roberts and Parks (2007) suggest an answer to such a question in the article \u201cFueling Injustice: Emissions,\u00a0Development Paths, and Responsibility.\u201d\u00a0 It is suggested that the United States is making an inconsistent\u00a0contribution to the potential decline of impacts caused by global climate change.\u00a0 This proves that although a main\u00a0contributor to total greenhouse gas emissions, as well as per capita emissions, the United States is providing very little solution to the problems that developing nations will soon face.\u00a0 The figure above, from Roberts and Parks (2007) provides a representation of which factors most contribute to climate change.\u00a0 Among these are wealth, population, geography, institutions, industrial structure, and trade intensity.\u00a0 The United States provides high contributions in a number of these areas.\u00a0 This is evidence that overall, the United States plays a major role in causing climate change.<\/p>\n
So, why is it that the United States plays a relatively small role in preventing the dangerous impacts of climate change?\u00a0 Considering the inequity between countries regarding per capita emissions, it will be extremely difficult to decide on future international agreements and global climate policies (Buckeley & Newell, 2010).\u00a0 Eventually, it will all come down to someone taking responsibility for actions.<\/p>\n
Works Cited:<\/p>\n
Bulkeley, H., and P. Newell, 2010. Governing Climate Change. Routledge, New York. pp. 35-53.<\/p>\n
Roberts & Parks, 2007. \u201cFueling Injustice: Emissions, Development Paths, and Responsibility.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0In Roberts & Parks, A Climate of Injustice, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 133-184.<\/p>\n
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Harriet Bulkeley and Peter Newell (2010) explain the contemporary politics of global climate change with accounts of suspicion, inequality, and skepticism.\u00a0 Pointing fingers and holding responsibilities are things involved with every political issue throughout history.\u00a0 When it comes to global climate change, the unethical implications behind actions of developed countries make it easy to see who is responsible for causing, and in turn, preventing climate change from reaching drastic tribulations.
\nEvidence shows that developed countries are indeed most responsible for the causes of climate change; the irony in this is that developing countries will be most affected by impacts of the changing climate.\u00a0 Bulkeley and Newell (2010) suggest \u201cThis sense of injustice derives from the fact that those who have contributed least to the problem of climate change in the past, including most of the world\u2019s poor, are those most susceptible to its worst effects now and in the future.\u00a0 Meanwhile, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19448,40558],"tags":[34236,1301,34290],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change-2","category-climate-change-politics","tag-bulkeley-and-newell","tag-climate-change","tag-roberts-and-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}