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Science, technology, and the environment - Uncertain future

6 important questions on Science, technology, and the environment - Uncertain future

What was linked with security and power?

Power, and thus security, in the international arena remained inextricably linked to the state's ability to secure, distribute, and consume affordable energy.

What was unattainable without economic development?

Social order, meaningful employment, and physical and mental well-being were all deemed unattainable without constant economic development, without further dominion over nature.

What did the environmental movement do?

The environmental movement had heightened public awareness of the dangers inherent in technical efforts to manage and alter nature, but the economic and military imperatives that undergirded the sovereign - and solvent - nation-state continued to take priority over the less immediate challenge of long-term sustainability.

Why are developing countries doubly disadvantaged?

Developing countries were doubly disadvantaged, both because of the need to compete with established industrial powers and by a new concern over the environmental impact of traditional technologies and fuels.

What was said in the Kyoto protocol? Why did Bush withdraw from it?

According to the Kyoto protocol, developed states were obliged to cut their emissions by 5 percent of 1990 figures by the year 2012.
The countries of the EU signed up, but in 2001 President George W. Bush withdrew American support for the agreement, objecting to generous emissions exemptions for developing states such as China and India, and claiming that compliance would "cause serious harm to the US economy."

What was concluded in the Renewable Global Status Report for 2018?

When international stake-holders representing private industry, non-government organizations, academic researchers, and climate scientists issued their annual Renewable Global Status Report for 2018, hopeful signs of increased investment, business innovations, and declining costs associated with renewable energy initiatives worldwide were documented.
Even with these positive trends, the report concluded that the current pace of energy transition would not allow the global community to keep temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius over the course of the twenty-first century.

The question on the page originate from the summary of the following study material:

A Concise History of the World Since 1945 | 9781352010206 | W M Spellman

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