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At a time when Europe faces existential risks in the form of climate change and geopolitical competition, an over-cautious application of technical rules risks missing the bigger picture.
The reality of a warming climate coupled with increasing urbanization means that extreme disasters aren’t rare anymore.
Democracy is touted everywhere as a set of values and rights to uphold against foreign foes. It would strengthen the case if Europe more consistently embraced democratic politics, debate and negotiation as a way of actually getting things done.
To understand the virtual water trade, let’s start with cows. In recent years, public attention and anger has grown over the way water in the rapidly drying Colorado River Basin is used to grow food for cattle, whose emissions are driving climate change, which is exacerbating this drought in the first place.
The United States must not only match the effort of other countries but surpass it, if it wants to be competitive in the clean energy race for the future.
Political science has been slow to grapple with climate change, but it can play a critical role in addressing obstacles to nation-wide action. Francis Fukuyama's latest.
It will take a concerted effort at multiple levels—from climate adaptation to recovery funding to police awareness—to prevent climate-related disasters from making society’s battle against human trafficking even more difficult.
Fear is not an ignoble sentiment.
Europe now faces economic challenges that include high energy prices; the collapse of trade with Russia; the closing off of Chinese markets; and a return to industrial policy and trade discrimination by the U.S., a country with a giant current-account deficit that buys more from Europe than any other trading partner.
Libya’s acute vulnerabilities to climate change have been exacerbated by years of conflict, corruption, infrastructural decay, and environmental deterioration.