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Climate Change And Climate Essay

Politics Behind Climate Change and What Can and Should Be Done Climate change has been a major problem experienced by various countries globally. Many factors contribute to climate change problems experienced including manmade and natural factors. Many researchers in different countries have concentrated on studies with the aim of finding strategies that help in dealing climate change problem. From the increasing climate change problems, many policy questions are arising regarding the methods used in addressing the issue. Different countries have directed more funds, climate professionals, and other resources to the approaches aimed at dealing with the climate change. With such efforts, no significant impact is felt from the commitment (McLean et al., 2016). Additionally, policy matters are the weakest part of all the approaches adopted and implemented when addressing the issue. Some of the questions arising include availability of the policies, their implementation, punishment to the policy offenders, civic education, and the availability of enough funds to enact and implement the policies.

With the increase in problems, many stakeholders are wondering whether the policies to deal with the problems are available. Many policies are enacted and implemented with the aim of dealing with the specific problem. Such a problem and question is not experienced in one country but in different countries globally. Most of the human activities like industries, land cultivation, burning fossils, and many other activities are happening globally without any measure to control such activities (Barker, 2017). Internationally,...

Responsible individuals and authorities in different countries globally should assess the availability of policies and their impacts when dealing with the problem. If such policies are not adequate or inactive, more policies should be enacted and implemented such that the problem can be addressed to the expected standards.
Although the policies enacted to deal with the climate change problems are available, there is non-commitment in the implementation of the same especially from the major players like China. They have taken long to cut down their industrial emissions. The various human activities experienced fuel the climate change problems without any punishment being imposed on the policy offenders. Strict measures and commitments should be implemented to ensure that the policies available are implemented in different parts of the countries as per the policies available in each country (Shreck & Vedlitz, 2016). In some countries, the punishment posed to the offenders of climate change policy is light because the violation never stops. The responsible individuals and authorities should enact severe punishments, which will deter the policy offenders from committing the same offenses in future.

Civic education regarding the climate change policies is another question arising from the problem. Many people do not understand most of the climate change policies due to lack of civic education especially among the residents in the community. When a policy is enacted regarding any problem or challenge, people should be…

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Barker, T. (2017). The economics of avoiding dangerous climate change. In Green Economy Reader (pp. 237-263). Springer International Publishing.

McLean, J. E., McLean, J. E., Fuller, S., & Fuller, S. (2016). Action with (out) activism: understanding digital climate change action. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 36(9/10), 578-595.

Shreck, B., & Vedlitz, A. (2016). The Public and Its Climate: Exploring the Relationship Between Public Discourse and Opinion on Global Warming. Society & Natural Resources, 29(5), 509-524.
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