Politics may be hampering efforts to adequately address climate change
The United Nations (UN) and others have been proclaiming loudly for many years, that carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, generated by human activity, have been contributing to the rapid changing of the climate in ways that, if persist, will eventually render the planet uninhabitable. Yet, despite this frightening and alarming proposition, many countries of the world, including some that emit the majority of the carbon dioxide, seem to be in no hurry to do what is considered urgent and necessary to mitigate or curtail the carbon dioxide emissions. The big carbon-emitting nations, the US, China, India, the . . .