John Kerry, the ex-secretary of state of the US and current US Climate Envoy made the very good point this last week of the need to get beyond politics when it comes to addressing climate change.
After a couple of weeks that saw a wide range of extreme weather events around the entire northern hemisphere destroying property, business, infrastructure and taking lives, it may finally be coming home to even the hardest skeptics that climate is changing, that weather will become more extreme and that humans will suffer. That alone may take them beyond the arguments of why it is changing which has driven so much avoidance to date and get them simply solution oriented.
In attempting to get the US and China to co-operate more, Kerry is addressing two countries who are responsible for 40% of all emissions globally. They also wield the most influence among many other countries. So if they can overcome their political differences to properly instigate meaningful change, things could be turning for the better.
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