Response to IPCC report
Extra Credit Assignment for...
GEO 356: Environmental Ideas and Policy
Professor Bob Wilson
The recently issued IPCC report regarding the impacts of climate change is worrisome at the very least. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is made up of the best climate scientists in the world; scientists by nature are generally level-headed individuals, not “doomsayers”. We can assume that these individuals are speaking conservatively when they discuss the profound impacts that a small change in temperature will have on our environment. To speak conservatively about something and still have the report come across as it did (worrisome) makes the issue even more upsetting/scary. As an environmentalist, environmental policy student, and future MPA student extremely familiar with the climate change debate I can not help but sense the urgency in these statements. I also can not help but sit at home, as I often do, thinking I hate the United States! No, no. I hate politics, specifically those of the environment; I hate republicans (who voted for Bush); I HATE GEORGE W. BUSH, specifically his anti-environment pro-energy agenda. I could go on and on about the things I hate – to summarize, after reading this and other reports I become angry and determined to be an agent of change. I recognize that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation, or to suffer. I am excited for the opportunity to attend the Maxwell School, to get involved in politics, and be that agent of change. I propose mitigation and adaptation, as well as making policies that reflect sustainable values. ...I want to be the agent of change and I don’t want to be personally (or as a nation or as a generation) responsible for the collapse of the human race.
Written in response to: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability—Summary for Policymakers (2007), found at: http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf
GEO 356: Environmental Ideas and Policy
Professor Bob Wilson
The recently issued IPCC report regarding the impacts of climate change is worrisome at the very least. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is made up of the best climate scientists in the world; scientists by nature are generally level-headed individuals, not “doomsayers”. We can assume that these individuals are speaking conservatively when they discuss the profound impacts that a small change in temperature will have on our environment. To speak conservatively about something and still have the report come across as it did (worrisome) makes the issue even more upsetting/scary. As an environmentalist, environmental policy student, and future MPA student extremely familiar with the climate change debate I can not help but sense the urgency in these statements. I also can not help but sit at home, as I often do, thinking I hate the United States! No, no. I hate politics, specifically those of the environment; I hate republicans (who voted for Bush); I HATE GEORGE W. BUSH, specifically his anti-environment pro-energy agenda. I could go on and on about the things I hate – to summarize, after reading this and other reports I become angry and determined to be an agent of change. I recognize that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation, or to suffer. I am excited for the opportunity to attend the Maxwell School, to get involved in politics, and be that agent of change. I propose mitigation and adaptation, as well as making policies that reflect sustainable values. ...I want to be the agent of change and I don’t want to be personally (or as a nation or as a generation) responsible for the collapse of the human race.
Written in response to: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability—Summary for Policymakers (2007), found at: http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf
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