It's impossible to seriously address the climate change problem without involving the major developing countries, India and China especially.
To put the entire climate change problem into very simple terms there are three things we need to know.
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There are people who believe we should plant trees all over Europe and North America to solve the climate change problem.
But the fact of the matter is, is that if we don't think about using energy more efficiently, then we're not going to solve the climate change problem and we're not going to solve the energy independence problem.
More importantly, construing the climate-change problem in this manner may unintentionally and indirectly hamper the success of more comprehensive climate-change policies.
He also said that despite the U.S. Congress generally in disagreement on climate change, with politicians out of lock step with most Americans who believe climate change is a problem, Brazil believes that the U.S. will deliver on climate change.
Assume that climate change is a problem, one that we need to do something about.
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Why is climate change an ethical problem and how could ethics be useful in addressing it?
Britons do seem to regard climate change as a problem, but there is little appetite for big lifestyle changes.
As to the major point that Krugman is making, that there does seem to be a blanket refusal to believe, on one side of the political aisle, that climate change is a problem we should do something about, well, yes, it seems that there is.
"Climate change is not a problem that Europe can afford to put into the 'too difficult' pile, " she said.
Climate change is indeed a problem and one that I at least am certain is something we ought to do something about.
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With respect to carbon emissions, I share the view of your Prime Minister and most scientists in the world that climate change is a real problem and that human activity is contributing to it, and that we all have a responsibility to find ways to reduce our carbon emissions.
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The problem with climate change is excessive consumption by rich people, not procreation by poor people.
Yet many people still hope to solve the problem of climate change just by eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions.
With the additional problem of climate change, any significant uptick might be impossible.
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It is both good and bad that there are so many competing solutions to the problem of climate change.
And it calls on the insurance sector to help our country adapt, and to tackle the problem of climate change pollution head-on.
This makes climate change itself a much cheaper problem to deal with.
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Contrary to what you might be hearing from the more excitable ends of the press it seems that climate change is less of a problem than we thought it was.
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"Climate change is an immediate and serious problem for people all around this state, " he says.
Fifty-three percent of likely voters said they believe that global climate change and warming is a legitimate problem.
And yes, climate change is just like any other problem we face.
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To the extent we can agree that climate change is problematic largely because of the change part, makes the Social Security problem and the climate problem broadly similar.
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But it also raises the central question: Which problem takes priority, climate change or energy independence?
Without a serious effort to solve this problem, the risk from climate change will be vastly increased and the planet will lose one of its most valuable, and most beautiful, assets.
Dr Brandon, who is personally concerned about the potential impact of man-made climate change on the planet, argues that overstating the problem is not helpful.
So hot, you might say that the House is creating a special new committee to highlight the problem and senators are introducing one climate change bill after another.
But desertification is not limited to China and it is fast becoming a serious global problem that will only be exacerbated by climate change.
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