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Climate Change is an extremely complicated problem. The Earth is an extremely delicate system—it has many layers and each of them interact with the others in ways we are still not completely sure about. This means that, when there is an imbalance, even a small one, it creates a huge change in the planet’s weather, temperature, and biological systems.
Climate change is a pretty simple problem, at its core.
We cut down all the trees, drained all the swamps, dammed all the rivers, and then started burning oil. We cut out the earth’s lungs and got addicted to smoking.
Since the problem is seen as quite complicated, it should first be discussed why the problem is simple.
Nothing in this world is free. The effort toward global decarbonization that has become a critical priority for much of the international community comes with its immediately obvious hurdles. The large-scale rollout of renewable energy production, the mass electrification of oil- and gas-powered sectors, and the scaling down of animal agriculture are all wide-scale and far from easy.
The history of California can be traced along the axis of water as well: during the Mexican-American war, one month before Mexico’s surrender of the land that is today California, a man named James Marshall found gold on the banks of the American River.
Hurricanes aren’t expected to get any weaker. In fact, Hurricane season is expected to become more intense as the amount of rain hurricanes bring with them increases.
A single, undeniable fact looms large in the political sphere—the world is warming. Each passing year pushes the planet closer to a potential climate catastrophe, the threat of which has grown to dominate the past four presidential terms and now demands immediate action. The differing approaches of presidential administrations and their subsequent consequences are quite complex. To better understand broader climate policy, we can look at the changes in U.S policy on a specific issue.
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