• Question: why are no goverments trying hard enough to try and stop global warming?

    Asked by chloef25 to Angela, Gopal, Hannah, Becky, Vince on 24 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Gopal Ramchurn

      Gopal Ramchurn answered on 24 Jun 2013:


      As you seem to imply, they are trying but not hard enough… that’s because governments do not have a long term agenda – their agenda lasts only 5 years because that’s when they have to get voted in again…. so they prefer to delay tough measures that will help curb global warming but will not get them votes. Another reason is that, sometimes, to maintain the competitiveness of our economy, they have to resort to the cheapest but not the cleanest ways of producing energy….

    • Photo: Rebecca Cook

      Rebecca Cook answered on 26 Jun 2013:


      Also governments need to work together, and to get a significant amount of countries to agree to make and implement changes is difficult.

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