Angel Javier Rosario

Access to cleaner water has increased; mortality from ‘Extreme Weather Events’ has declined by 99 per cent since the 1920s; fewer people are dying from heat; death rates from climate-sensitive diseases like malaria and diarrhoea have decreased (since 1900 malaria death rates have declined 96 per cent); hunger rates have declined; poverty has declined (GDP per capita has quadrupled since 1950 even as CO2 levels have sextupled); life expectancy has more than doubled since the start of industrialisation; health adjusted life expectancy has increased; global inequality has decreased in terms of incomes, life expectancies and access to modern-day amenities; the earth is green and more productive; habitat lost to agriculture has peaked due to fossil fuel dependent technologies. Even sea-level rise — predicted to be the most damaging impact of global warming — seems to be much less of a problem than thought, according to to the study’s findings. contrary to prevailing wisdom, tree cover globally has increased by over 2 million km2 between 1982 and 2016, an increase of 7 per cent” — but they provide the fertilisers and pesticides which simultaneously feed the planet and reduce the amount of land required for agriculture: Thus, nitrogen fertilisers and carbon dioxide fertilisation have together increased global food production by 111 per cent. According to the Pope: The effects of global inaction are startling…Around the world, we are seeing heat waves, droughts, forest fires, floods and other extreme meteorological events, rising sea levels, emergencies of diseases and further problems that are only premonition of things far worse, unless we act and act urgently.

Former President Donald Trump kept his campaign promise and withdrew the U. S. in 2018 from the Obama-negotiated atomic deal, which saw Iran agree to limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Former President Donald Trump kept his campaign promise and withdrew the U. S. in 2018 from the Obama-negotiated atomic deal, which saw Iran agree to limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. U. S. President Joe Biden has since said he will seek to revive the deal, but insisted Iran must first reverse its nuclear steps. This is the definitive and irreversible policy of the Islamic Republic, and all of the country’s officials are unanimous on this, and no one will deviate from it,” Khamenei added Sunday, reiterating Iranian leaders’ previous remarks that the U. S. must ease its sanctions before Iran comes back into compliance.

Former President Donald Trump kept his campaign promise and withdrew the U. S. in 2018 from the Obama-negotiated atomic deal, which saw Iran agree to limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Former President Donald Trump kept his campaign promise and withdrew the U. S. in 2018 from the Obama-negotiated atomic deal, which saw Iran agree to limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. U. S. President Joe Biden has since said he will seek to revive the deal, but insisted Iran must first reverse its nuclear steps. This is the definitive and irreversible policy of the Islamic Republic, and all of the country’s officials are unanimous on this, and no one will deviate from it,” Khamenei added Sunday, reiterating Iranian leaders’ previous remarks that the U. S. must ease its sanctions before Iran comes back into compliance.

At the time, Carter’s critics said that we weren’t running out of energy at all; the problem, they said, was price controls that had squashed American energy production. During his four years in office, oil prices tripled, even as American oil production fell, thanks to those price controls. Okay, so now, back to our time, to the 46th president: As we have seen, he, too, is thinking big—too big, in the eyes of ordinary Americans, who just wish to be left alone, and not be swept up in some ginormous plan to remake the country. To be sure, Biden hasn’t mentioned the “moral equivalent of war,” and the specific issues have changed over the past half-century, from “energy crisis” to “climate change.