Published March 3rd, 2007 by Future Atlas
Changing climate change politics
On “Charlie Rose” last week, Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute noted that China is projected to be the largest carbon emitter in 3-4 years. This will “lead to a huge change [in] American politics,” he said.
When China is the largest emitter, the Americans are going to say, ‘the Chinese are wrecking our climate.’ All of sudden its going to be nationalism here. ‘How dare they wreck our climate. What are they doing about it?’ And of course that’s how the rest of the world has viewed us all this time. We’re going to see it finally from the others’ perspective.