unit 1 final project

We can represent this winter as disaster. Do you know why? because, many people suffered coldness during this winter. In Seoul, almost thirty centimeters (11 inches) snow covered the city, the first time since 1910. The eastern U.S.A had 40 inches snow few weeks ago. Many people could not do anything because of the disastrous winter.
I think you all have heard about “Snowgeddon”. Not only in the eastern U.S.A but in South Korea, which locates far away from the U.S., many people suffered the disastrous winter. What and who caused this phenomena? Well, although people say many different reasons, factories, made by human beings, emit too much CO2, which causes the climate change. Before we start with a serious topic, let’s take interesting examples. Kobe and Shaq, Jordan and Pippen, and also Eminem and Dr. Dre… What can you imagine by seeing those guys? Yes! They are very famous in the world. However, those guys became famous, because they co-work together. No matter what we do, we have to help each other. For the climate change, many nations need to co-work. Many nations already tried to make corporation, such as Kyoto protocol in 1997, but the 1997 negotiation did not help climate change a lot. In 2009, at Copenhagen, many nations had a conference to make a climate treaty. Compared to the 1997’s treaty, the 2009’s treaty looked much more hopeful than the 1997’s treaty.
According to the 2009’s treaty, many countries, including Norway, Indonesia and the European nations, decide to cut off the amounts of CO2 emission. Additionally, the U.S. has started to establish reduction CO2 law for the first time. However, we cannot see the important country, which would lead the world’s economy for the next few decades: China. I will talk about China later. For preventing further climate change, wealthy nations and developing nations should co-work together. In other words, unless the wealthy nations offer financial supports to the developing nations, further CO2 reduction will not happen; the supports are the key to achieve the environmental protect. Last but not least, also, we need to have the time and perseverance for future.
I cannot accept the article about 2009’s treaty, which looks hopeful, because of China. Chinese quick growth makes many people think that China would lead the world after few years. According to “Economist React: China’s Growth Quickens, But So Does Inflation” in Wall Street Journal, it tells the Chinese quick economic growth. Will China give up on their quick growth to preserve the nature? I guess not. Let’s take an easy example. Suppose that one will have huge salary in the future. Will he or she give up on the salary? It is safe to say that no one would give up on the salary, no matter what will happen. So will China. In addition, I think wealthy nations, such as the U.S., would not give financial supports to developing nations. We have to look over, what happened in China at last February: Google case in China. In China, we could not find sensitive words in the Google, such as Tiananmen Square massacre. Why does this happen? It shows one of the communism countries’ features, so the Chinese government wants to unite their citizens by keeping their citizens from knowing sensitive and inhumane cases. Therefore, the Google said that they would stop working in China, unless they eliminate the web filtering. I really wonder that the Google, the current icon of the U.S., really care about the Chinese human right. Many people starve in the U.S., or many people suffer the racism or unfair treatment in the States, but why does Google care about other country? “To weaken Chinese power and growth.”The Google and America try to distract China and Chinese; they want to scatter the power of Chinese by making issue of the web filtering case.
Taking all these things into accounts, I want to ask; will wealthy nations give financial aids to developing nations for preventing further climate change? No! That will never happen. Therefore, the intergovernmental action will never happen.
Then, what should we do? Well, it seems that we have a very sensitive and tricky question. Many scholars and politicians tried and have tried to find solutions for the climate change, but no one has found the clear answer. These days, some people insist that we have to deal with CO2 emission by money. For example, if one firm wants to make factories, which cause the emission of CO2, a firm first has to purchase CO2 emission tickets from the government. Yes! It looks similar to stock trading in financial markets. However, I think this would cause other financial crisis in the future. Well, we can mention long and complicated reasons, but in brief, some guys’ greedy cause the financial crisis, mostly about dealing with bonds and stocks. We have to find the wisest and most beneficial solution for both human beings and the nature.
I like baseball. Do you know why? Because, unlike basketball, football or soccer, both teams have equal opportunities in a baseball game, since time limit does not exist in a baseball game. Like the rule of baseball, I think all nations should have equal opportunities in this world. Therefore, in my opinion, we should give developing nations opportunities to develop until specific numerical value. For example, we generally use GDP, Gross Domestic Products, to gauge economic values. Let’s take China and the U.S. examples. Currently, the U.S. produces 14204322 millions of dollars, the first in the world. China produces 4326187 millions of dollars, ranked fourth in the world. Let’s make China develop their economy, until they reach close to the U.S. It would not take long for China to catch up the U.S., because China has rapidly grown up. Then, if we make proper regulation, after developing nations catch up wealthy nations, it will not be too late.


http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7267/pdf/4611027a.pdf

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/01/21/economists-react-chinas-growth-quickens-but-so-does-inflation/?KEYWORDS=china+economic+growth