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Sabotaging the Planet: Denial and International Negotiations

Sabotaging the Planet: Denial and International Negotiations

McPherson Ph. D., William R.

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1519588453
ISBN13: 9781519588456
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 7 2016
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Denial of climate change has consequences. As we have seen during the past four years, denial ideology has created a culture of political malfeasance, as politicians use denial to try to delay needed action. While some such as President Barack Obama have pressed ahead with regulations to control carbon emissions, others have sought to stop the international community from taking action by reducing the role of the United States to a foot-dragger in negotiations. Paris heralded a turning point in international negotiations on climate change. With the adoption of the Paris Agreement, 194 nations committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This book records the negotiations and events that led to the Paris agreement, and reveals the forces aligned against it. In the U.S., there is a notable denial movement that uses pseudoscience to deny the evidence of climate science. Politicians who do not favor climate action for whatever reason enlist this denial ideology. The war on coal, the assertion that the globe is cooling, that climate science is a hoax, and similar themes are interwoven in the denial ideology. The ideology feeds into opposition to the Paris Agreement, which could sabotage the planet.

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