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<\/p>\nDeciding whom to blame for climate change is an incredibly complex and sensitive issue. The reasons behind this stem from two very important aspects of what it takes to deal with climate change. First the difficulty of changing the habits of millions of people and second, and possibly more importantly, the cost of making changes. Because of these, everyone wants to put the blame and responsibility on someone else, anyone else.<\/p>\n
When first looking at who should clean up and prevent climate change, it is key to look at who is responsible for the mess we are in now. Looking at it from a historical view, it is clearly the United States and other developed countries who take the cake for historically polluting the most(Roberts and Parks). But as we move forward into the future, other developing countries are now major contributors to climate change. Yet even with the massive amount of pollution that developing countries are pumping out, it still seems that for the most part countries like the U.S. are the ones currently most responsible. We have been polluting for far longer and now the developing countries are just copying our past actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Turning towards the question of who is responsible for preventing dangerous climate change should be a very easy answer, but because of the factors discussed above of change and money, it seems impossible. Looking at the question from the perspective of an outsider the answer is clear, everyone is responsible. The real question becomes how is that responsibility divided up. There are hundreds of factors to consider from the difference in economy size of the countries, to the number of actual people, and beyond. How do countries like the U.S. go about telling China they have to stop polluting, in order to grow economically, when we did the exact same thing not too long ago? When it comes right down to it there is no easy way to decide how to split it up but we need to come to terms with the reality that we all will have to make big sacrifices and soon.<\/p>\n
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Roberts & Parks, 2007. \u201cFueling Injustice: Emissions, Development Paths, and Responsibility.\u201d\u00a0 In Roberts & Parks, A Climate of Injustice<\/em>, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 133-184.<\/p>\n Image: http:\/\/www.damtp.cam.ac.uk\/lab\/phdprojects\/index_files\/image007.jpg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deciding whom to blame for climate change is an incredibly complex and sensitive issue. The reasons behind this stem from two very important aspects of what it takes to deal with climate change. First the difficulty of changing the habits of millions of people and second, and possibly more importantly, the cost of making changes. Because of these, everyone wants to put the blame and responsibility on someone else, anyone else.
\nWhen first looking at who should clean up and prevent climate change, it is key to look at who is responsible for the mess we are in now. Looking at it from a historical view, it is clearly the United States and other developed countries who take the cake for historically polluting the most(Roberts and Parks). But as we move forward into the future, other developing countries are now major contributors to climate change. Yet even with the massive amount …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","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\/838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}