Specifically in the United States, the Clean Power Plan put forward by President Obama is the latest and most liberal effort to curb emissions within the United States. The Clean Power Plan, or CPP, was developed in conjunction with the goals from the Paris Accord, which will be discussed later in the paper. States are supposed to establish their own means of meeting goals set by the CPP through a flexible framework with strategies such as “investing in renewable energy, energy efficiency, natural gas, and nuclear power, and shifting away from coal-fired power” (“The Clean Power Plan: A Climate Game Changer”). The end goal of the CPP was to reduce national electricity emissions by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 (“The Clean Power Plan: …show more content…
The future impacts of climate change are similar to what is occurring now, except the scale may be worse and the effects may begin to impact more aspects of human life (Stylianou, et al). For example, Susan Schneider, a law professor at the University of Arkansas, believes that “climate disruptions will impact food production” by 2025 (Schneider). Schneider relays that climate change will negatively impact crop production, which will result in difficult planning and possibly increased hunger in first-world countries (Schneider). On a different note, in a journal article written by Hugh Steadman, he presents three degrees of climate destabilization, and states that scientists see a three degree increase in temperature inevitable (Steadman 21). That three-degree increase would put the world in the second degree of destabilization, which is labeled irreversible climate destabilization (Steadman 21). Obviously, that is something that human nature wants to avoid, but at the current rate, it is unavoidable. That is why the world needs to realize how important of an issue climate change is, and needs to start a revolution towards slowing it down, led by China and the US, the world’s two biggest proponents of carbon