Largest Nations Start To Give Up On Climate Change
The latest news on the climate change front is that the largest nations in Europe have been unable to agree on common goals. Eventually, this means there may be no goals at all. Taken together with the climate goal retreat of the Trump Administration, several nations will have dropped out of the race to save the world from a climate disaster.Â
Climate Home News reports, “Environment ministers representing the European Union’s 27 member states failed to agree emissions reduction targets for 2035 and 2040 in Brussels on Thursday, instead asking their countries’ leaders to weigh in when they meet next month.” Some of these nations are the largest polluters in the world.
China, India, and the U.S. may top the rest of the world on carbon emissions, but the EU as a group is just as large. And, the fact that there can be dissent among these nations is a sign that decent is becoming a greater and greater issue.
Who Is Giving Up?
Those who want climate goals to be put aside are helped by the disagreement. Exxon recently attacked Europe for being unrealistic about fossil fuels. The argument has become part of Exxon’s campaign to make fossil fuels a gift to the world’s population. How could the world run without energy? And, renewables are not a large enough provider to keep the lights on.
If the idea has been that nations can get closer and closer to solve environmental problems, the actual move is in the other direction.
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