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Paris Summit Finds New Money, Tech To Fight Climate Change (apnews.com)
An anonymous reader shares an Associated Press report: World leaders, investment funds and energy magnates promised Tuesday to devote new money and technology to slow global warming at a summit in Paris that President Emmanuel Macron hopes will rev up the Paris climate accord that U.S. President Donald Trump has rejected. Trump wasn't invited to the event but his name was everywhere. One by one, top world diplomats, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, business leaders like Michael Bloomberg and even former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry insisted that the world will shift to cleaner fuels and reduce emissions regardless of whether the Trump administration pitches in or not. Central to Tuesday's summit was countering Trump's main argument that the 2015 Paris accord on reducing global emissions would hurt U.S. business. Macron, a 39-year-old former investment banker, argues that the big businesses and successful economies of the future will be making and using renewable energy instead of pumping oil. Macron's office announced a dozen international projects emerging from the summit that will inject hundreds of millions of dollars in efforts to curb climate change. "The United States did not drop out of the Paris agreement. Donald Trump got Donald Trump out of the Paris agreement," Schwarzenegger said. The projects also aim to speed up the end of the combustion engine to reduce the emissions that contribute to global warming. With that aim, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced that his agency would stop financing oil and gas projects in two years, except in special circumstances for very poor nations.
When the government stops paying farmers to not produce and the country stops throwing away half the food that is produced then I'll worry about food riots. That isn't likely to happen anytime soon. Land that gets turned into desert is more often than not due to poor land management. The state of California dumps millions of gallons of fresh water into the Pacific Ocean rather than sending it to the parched central valley farms in order to save some fish. Then they blame global warming for their problems. There are a few small islands in the Pacific Ocean that may go underwater. The people there will have to move, period. The rest of the world is not going to radically alter their lifestyles to accommodate a relatively small number of people. If they want to start a war with the rest of the world over this that is their prerogative. I don't think that would end very well for them.