The Climate Change Fight Cannot Be Won with White Liberal America Alone

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2. The title is misleading...

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The Climate Change Fight Cannot Be Won

I fixed it for you.

The problem is that climate change is not an American issue, let alone a left-right issue. It is a global crisis, and even to begin addressing it would require three things:

1. All nations to agree that the human presence on the planet is, in aggregate, too large and too active;
2. All nations to agree that reducing the human presence on the planet in either numbers, economic activity levels - or both - is essential if we are to have any hope of mitigating the multi-dimensional predicament we have unleashed upon the biosphere; and
3. All nations to agree to relinquish the potential national advantages that would accrue from becoming a free rider.

Without such international agreements, all that can be done is to delay the inevitable.

How likely does anyone think such agreements are?