The soon to be president of the United State has denied not only that climate change is human made, but he denies that it is even happening at all. He portrays global warming as a concept that is made up just to make profit. Donald Trump has a lot of unpopular meanings, and a lot of his opinions are criticised as being hateful to minorities, to women, to disabled, to immigrants, and the list is long. He has had a lot of negative attention among enormous amount of people on a global level. The fact that he thinks climate change is nothing to be concerned about is worrying, because he has a lot of power for what america will do in the future about their pollution.
He was elected, and that means that majourity of the population of USA thinks he is a right choice, all though climate change is not something he considers as necessary to do anything about, because he does not believe science is truthful. USA pollutes a lot and has a massive responsibility to the rest of the world on how they should make a change so the earth has a chance. USA decides what USA is going to do about their pollution, even if USA’s pollution will have an impact on other countries. It might be democracy in the way that we have an impact on what happens in our own country when we vote, but not everything that has an impact on yourself gives you the opportunity to decide.
”Following the decision of the panel at its 43rd Session to accept the invitation from the UNFCCC, at its 44th Session, the Panel approved the outline of Global Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.
The report will be finalized in September 2018”
(https://www.ipcc.ch)
What most of the worlds countries have agreed on, the goal of how much they are going to try to let the degrees on the planet come to, is an agreement from the last leaders in this world. Since that agreement from last years climate conference, countries in this world has got new leaders, with different sentiments than the leaders before. The agreement that is made is already not ambitious enough to save a lot of countries that cannot adapt to the changes climate change will bring. The future of that this agreement will contain is really uncertain, but from USA’s vote, it does not look like the agreement will become more ambitious, if not less ambitious.
One thing is to make an ambitious agreement, but another thing is to keep the agreement that the countries decides. It might be that some countries politics decides that they are going to continue polluting, but the majority of the people get opposed to that, and therefor all the companies tries to satisfy their costumers and therefor they change to use environmental materials and energy sources. There are not only politicians that has great power, so it is not only by voting that the people can influence. Big companies also have power, so by buying the products that are made environmentally we support that product so the company that made it gets bigger. By not buying products that are produced badly, we do not make the companies that is polluting bigger and more powerful.
How the media works today gives everyone a voice, and those pursvaiding people into believing different things can happen any time. For those who are worried because Donald Trump won the american election, and never dared to think someone that was that inconsiderate about the environment could win, there is still hope. The same way that he managed to get such big influence on peoples minds so quick, the same thing can happen the other way around.