Global Warming Needs No Utopian Science but a Dismal Science

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  • Jan-Erik Lane Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v2i1.105

Keywords:

Asian economies, “catch-up”, “take-off”, COP21 Goal I, Goal II and Goal III, energy-emission conundrum, J. Sachs’ SDG utopianism

Abstract

As the empirical evidence for the global warming hypothesis augments, not the least for Asia, it is time to take
climate change more seriously, starting with major activities to bring down the CO2:s and guard against methane.
It is no longer enough with small scale experimental activities, but a major policy push is necessary to get rid of
coal, stone or wood, replacing it or constructing carbon capture facilities everywhere. Old polluting buses and
trucks must be replaced urgently, diesel abandoned, and the closure of atomic plants stopped. South Asia and Eat
as well as South East Asia have now to embark upon major big scale policies to stop deforestation and
desertification, protect coral reefs and secure fresh water sources. Traditional renewables must be replaced by
modern renewables. And the pollution from the immense car park has to be regulated somehow. What is now at
stake for Asia at the most dynamic part of the globe is to fulfil Goal I and Goal II in the COP21 decarbonisation
Agreement? And no government can be allowed to renege. 

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2017-02-06

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Global Warming Needs No Utopian Science but a Dismal Science. (2017). Asian Journal of Social Science Studies, 2(1), p36. https://doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v2i1.105

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