Human should not be frogs
“When it comes to climate change, human society has been like the proverbial frog in the pail on the stove, where the heat gets turned up very slightly every hour, so the frog never thinks to jump out. It just keeps adjusting until it boils to death.” –Hot, Flat and Crowded, Thomas Friedman.
The problem with climate change is that carbon emission today will affect climate change in the future. We do not know exactly what will happen 50 years from now. Therefore, people tend to avoid making radical change to mitigate now. Yes, Obama is doing much better than Bush, China is quite proactive and international negotiations will proceed with some kind of urgency. But I am afraid we are not doing nearly enough to avert the trend to irreversible and disastrous impact. The recent signs of the acceleration of melting of glaciers and more frequent extreme weather events indicate that scientists have underestimated the impact of climate change.
Professor John Holdren used to say we have three options to deal with climate change: to mitigate, to adept and to suffer. It looks like we will face all the three options.If we mitigate more now, we will suffer less in the future. JT Niu
匿名 | Anonymous
2009年3月1日22:15
01 Mar 2009 22:15
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我觉得，生存需要导致每个人都是自私的，而国家是由人组成的，也是从自身利益出发,经过权衡利弊后决定自己的行动，而行动产生的后果会形成反馈，从而对行动做出修正，国家间的环保合作也符合上述的思维逻辑。
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In my opinion, the need for survival leads every person to become selfish. A country is composed of people and it decides its action after weighing the pros and cons from its own interests. The consequences of the action will bring some feedback, which will revise the action. The environmental protection cooperation between countries is also in line with the above logic.
(Translated by Jing Jiang)
匿名 | Anonymous
2009年3月2日0:37
02 Mar 2009 00:37
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非传统安全
应该说，在政治、军事、外交等领域主权国家间一般很难齐心协力地开展合作，但在公共卫生、跨国犯罪、反恐等领域的合作是很多的，打击索马里海盗不就是一个挺好的例子吗？所以说，环保应该不是第一次合作了。其实，人类从一开始就明白合作共赢的道理，但是种种不理智的行为和错误的形势判断使得我们走了太多太多的弯路。
Non-traditional security
Generally sovereign states are very reluctant to pull their strength to promote cooperation between each other within the realms of political, military and foreign affairs. However, when it comes to issues such as public health, cross-border crime and anti-terrorism, there has been a lot of cooperation - the action against the Somali pirates is a good example. Environmental protection is also an area that states can easily cooperate in. Human beings do actually have a fundamental understanding of the principal of win-win situations, however irrational behaviour and misjudged situations take us on too many detours.
(Translated by Tian Liang; edited by Poppy Toland)
匿名 | Anonymous
2009年3月2日2:11
02 Mar 2009 02:11
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优先投入
1.直到运载着核武器的苏联回去后，肯尼迪才撤走了美国军舰。肯尼迪没有承诺从土耳其移出导弹，但它们已经十分老化以至于对于地面人员而不是苏联来说更为危险。
2.合作意味着除了从美国引进资金和技术，中国必须做更多的事情。中国需要持之以恒地严格执行环境法规，甚至是对军队和高层干部投资的企业。介于中国的水资源、食品以及空气极度缺乏，中国应该减少空间和军事项目投入。这是一个优先权的问题。
（Translated by Tian Liang）
Spending priorities
1. Kennedy did not withdraw the ships until after the Soviet cargo ships carrying nukes turned around. Kennedy did promise to remove nuke missiles from Turkey but they were so old they were more dangerous to the ground crews than the USSR.
2. Cooperation means that China is going have to do more than just take money and technology from the US. China needs to uniformly and consistently enforce environmental laws, even against the PLA and businesses whose investors are senior cadres. China should also stop spending to much on its space and military programs seeing as how China is critically short of water, clean water, clean food and clean air. It is about priorities.
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