David Victor Writes Article for National Interest
The Green in the Machine
03/05/2010
David G. Victor,
National Interest
Politically, pretty much everything about global climate change conspires to let governments sit on their hands. The scariest dangers mostly live in the distant future where they are easier to ignore, but the costs of policies that would eventually lessen warming are immediate. International coordination is essential but hard to orchestrate. The countries that are most vulnerable to climate change and most inspired to stop global warming are also generally the poorest and the least responsible for the problem in the first place. They can’t, on their own, make much of a difference anyway. Those with rapidly increasing emissions, like China, are largely preoccupied with priorities like economic growth rather than diffuse global problems. The United States, the largest single polluter in history, is stuck in congressional gridlock.
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David Victor is director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, based at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
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