Tag / Pollution
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China’s Impossible Environmental Dilemma
China’s pollution problem has eclipsed the allegations of its human rights violation. In recent years, the international community has harshly criticized China’s worsening pollution and overuse of fossil fuel. It is of no doubt that China’s enormous carbon footprint and industrial pollution heavily strain the environment. Yet, contrary to what many would believe, this current…
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Cap and Trade: A Practical Solution to a Pressing Problem
Last fall, the United States and 194 other countries inked a historic climate accord. The Paris Agreement, as it is called, aims to prevent global temperatures from rising two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Signatories can ratify the agreement starting this month, and the provisions take effect in 2020. Climate scientists generally agree that keeping…
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Free Market Environmentalism
“No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” President Obama stated during his State of the Union address. It would be easy to dismiss the President’s words as banal and empty platitudes were it not for the landmark agreement he made in November with President Xi Jinping of China, which stipulated…
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How the Car Destroyed Atlanta and the Future of the American City
BY JONATHAN ROBISON Upon his return to the White House after delivering his State of the Union address to Congress on January 28, I imagine President Obama received an upsetting briefing outlining the chaotic situation in Atlanta. The nation’s ninth largest metropolitan area was paralyzed by just over two inches of snow. Although the crisis…
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Keep The Lines (of Pollution, Extortion, and Exploitation) Open
In the last print issue of the Washington University Political Review, my esteemed colleague Lennox Mark wrote an article advocating for the continuation of offshore oil drilling in the United States despite the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. His piece is compelling, making several great points. He discusses the importance of maintaining jobs in the…
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In Defense of Offshore Drilling
No one in our country is ignorant of the horrendous disaster that was the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The incalculable damage to the environment of the Gulf Coast will be immortalized in history as a nightmare we hope will never be relived. This oil spill, once referred to by…
