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<\/a>Final Plan Accomplishments (Gray - BAU*)<\/p><\/div>\n
On one hand, it was a lot more difficult to solve the problem than I expected. At first everyone seemed eager to cooperate. As the night went on, however, people started to get protective of their designated country groups (Developed, Rapidly Developing, and Developing). As part of the Rapidly Developing Group (as India) I thought that it would be relatively easy to negotiate with the “Developed countries” if we just told them we would do what we could if they helped us monetarily, and we would agree to lower our emissions if they agreed to lower a significant amount, since they were in the best position to. It seemed rational to me, but then we got in a huge dispute over the fact that they didn’t think they could be expected to give us lots of money as well as lower their emissions. This argument never really got solved (we ran out of time). I thought I was going in with an eagerness to cooperate, and it surprised me how fast I got defensive over something that really meant nothing to me past 9:00pm that night.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, I was surprised at how a bunch of college kids could come up with (almost) a solution to Climate Change. With our actions the model told us we could bring the ppm of CO2 down to 590, a huge improvement over what the world is currently looking at. If we can do it, why can’t they? But there was one huge difference between us and the real UN, we don’t really represent those countries. The phrase “naivety breeds cooperation” was used in our recap of the event. I think it is true. It was hard for me, and I’m sure others, to stick with the ideals that I knew India held. I found myself giving in to things that I knew I never would have were I the true representative. Because of this we were able to cooperate and make the moves we knew were necessary to stop global warming, because that, really, was our goal. In reality the goals of the parties are more domestic than international.<\/p>\n
We all got a taste of what a UN meeting might look like that night through the innate competitive tension we experienced. Our version, however, lacked the historical tensions, political tensions, personal tensions, and rather, reality, that shapes the true UN meetings. Without this reality we were able to cooperate out of naivety, but that isn’t a true representation of how things actually play out. And if we naive college kids can only bring the CO2 concentration down to 590 ppm, how is the real world going to get it down to 350 ppm?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last Thursday night the entire Mosaic class (all upperclassmen) and a First-year seminar had the names of countries assigned to them and were put in a room for three hours and told to solve the problem of Global Climate Change. I can’t decide if it was harder or easier than I thought it would be.<\/p>\n
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