Abstract
This article sketches out the efforts of government, business, and civil society to address the problem of climate change. It identifies some of the key initiatives underway — including proposals for more stringent caps on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; the creation of a market-based trading system that provides incentives and profits for entities that reduce their GHG emission levels; more robust research and development of alternative energy sources as well as new approaches to traditional ones; and continued public education — and portrays the bipartisan, collaborative, multilateral nature of saving Mother Nature. While acknowledging that ultimately these efforts may be futile, given the current amount of carbon concentrated in the atmosphere, the author calls for a covenant on climate change, at both institutional and individual levels, rooted in those inconvenient truths we should hold to be self-evident.
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Murninghan, Marcy
(2007)
"Climate. Scrubbing the Sky: Climate Change and the Productive Center,"
New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 21:
Iss.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol21/iss2/6