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Date: April 22, 2021 at 18:56:29
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: climate change, can we get there? |
URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/us-doesnt-have-the-policy-tools-investments-needed-to-meet-climate-pledge-says-author.html |
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U.S. doesn’t have the policy tools, investments
necessary to meet ambitious climate pledge, says
climate author
PUBLISHED THU, APR 22 20217:56 PM EDT
Emily DeCiccio
@EMILYDECICCIO
KEY POINTS
President Biden is pledging to reduce U.S.
greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2030, in
the latest push by the administration to
aggressively combat climate change.
“The question for me is whether we can even meet
these targets because they are unbelievably
ambitious given where we are today, and I don’t
think we yet have the policy tools or investments
necessary to get us there,” said author David
Wallace-Wells.
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David Wallace-Wells, author of “The Uninhabitable
Earth,” questioned if the U.S. had the ability to
actually meet President Joe Biden’s climate pledge
of reducing the country’s greenhouse gas emissions
by 50% to 52% by 2030.
“The question for me is whether we can even meet
these targets because they are unbelievably
ambitious given where we are today, and I don’t
think we yet have the policy tools or investments
necessary to get us there,” said Wallace-Wells.
Biden convened a global summit to urge international
cooperation on climate change. The summit
represented a chance for the U.S. to rejoin global
efforts on climate after former President Donald
Trump pulled out of the Paris accord, halted all
federal efforts to reduce domestic emissions and
rolled back more than 100 environmental regulations
to favor fossil fuel production.
Wallace-Wells told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard
Smith” that the U.S. is doing what the world has to
do as a whole, but ideally, the U.S. would be moving
even faster to address climate change.
“Since the U.S. is among the richest countries and
among the most technologically advanced, among the
most suited to making a fast transition, and because
we’ve benefitted the most of any country in the
world from the burning fossil fuels in the past, we
really should be leading that pace rather than just
meeting it,” said the Deputy Editor at Large of “New
York Magazine.
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Date: May 08, 2021 at 08:23:16
From: eaamon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: climate change, can we get there? |
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meeting goals is one thing but when the worlds population will double from the 8 billion to 16 billion by about 2040 those breathing CO2 out gets worse even more.
then by 2080 there will be 32 billion people. I am sure by then mother earth will have changed things.....
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Date: April 22, 2021 at 19:17:55
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: climate change, can we get there? |
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not likely...it is too late anyway...the die has been cast...
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Date: April 24, 2021 at 21:24:16
From: Sue/Seattle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: climate change, can we get there? |
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I dont think we can meet those goals either but we need
to try. I like the carrot approach, at least to start. I
may not have bought my solar panels except for the
generous rebates and tax cuts Which was $14,000. That
needs to continue. Give people a reason.
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