Environmental Hoax

Over the past 30 years, the increase totals to about one degree Fahrenheit which is not enough to cause alarm. Catastrophic hurricanes, droughts and floods that have been experienced, has always been there but since more and more people are populating areas that have not been populated before, these natural phenomena have turned into natural calamities and disasters. For example, flash floods that have claimed lives when scrutinized objectively will lead to observations that are as shocking as the misfortunes experienced by the victims. Valleys and areas where rivers meet are essentially areas that must not be inhabited but there are times, when unknowing governments allow their voters to live on these dangerous places realize their mistakes too late. When flash floods bring cut timber from high trees, they devastate ferociously as can be seen in pictures and videos. The immediate thought that comes to the mind of the viewers is that the calamity is brought about by massive logging instead of mismanagement of government responsibilities.

Two, with the life of fossil fuel diminishing, super powers need to find a convincing way on how to control consumption so that their own ways of life will be sustainable for the next hundred years. One such international pact is known as the Kyoto Protocol.

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol has been ratified by 164 countries, so far. This international agreement binds signatories to limit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the belief of the forthcoming disasters of global warming caused by these emissions. The Kyoto Climate Change Protocol requires the members to commit gas emission decrease by 5% from 1990 levels. Negotiations remain complex even after these countries have signed the protocol. There were steps on how countries would be monitored in their compliance but more important rules pertaining to operation of the Protocol are still ambiguous.