Decreasing Urgency

Juan Miranda
04/12/09
4:30

After almost three months since Obama’s administration began, it seems that the urgency with which our president promised to approach the planet warming issue has decreased. The administration claims that the global warming is one of its priorities they have not helped much to keep the issue within the plans for the budget resolutions that was released last week. It is very obvious that the plan for carbon reduction has moved down and the political agenda and maintains doing so. “Overseas, American officials are telling their counterparts that they need time to gauge the American public’s appetite for an ambitious carbon reduction scheme before leading any international effort.” The job is being thrown upon the EPA which will in fact do something about it, but the agency does not have as much power as the congress and it will take years to write up the regulations and years to become fully effective, the reality is that congress needs to act now. “At an international climate conference in Germany that ended Wednesday, some delegates said they were disappointed in the Obama administration’s lack of robust leadership. The explanation offered by Jonathan Pershing, a leader of the American delegation, was that the administration was waiting to measure the American technological and political capacity to address climate change and was looking to Congress to set specific targets for reducing carbon pollution.” I personally think its ridiculous that much has not been done yet. Global warming is a huge problem that it’s affecting us right now and we certainly cant wait years to do something about It. The world is ready to cooperate to fix the problem but it’s impossible if the biggest influence acts in such a hypocritical way. We are the number one polluter in the world we should be the number one in trying to fix this problem.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/us/politics/11climate.html?_r=1