Presenter and Commentator: Michael (Mickey) Glantz, Center for Capacity Building, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.
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University of Colorado Law School Colorado Law Scholarly Commons Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions (Summer Conference, June 7-9) 2006 6-7-2006 SLIDES: Climate Change and … the Future of the American West Michael (Mickey) Glantz Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/climate-change-and-future-of-American-west  Part of the Environmental Policy Commons, Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Commons, and the Oil, Gas, and Energy Commons Citation Information Glantz, Michael (Mickey), "SLIDES: Climate Change and … the Future of the American West" (2006). Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions (Summer Conference, June 7-9). https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/climate-change-and-future-of-American-west/15 Reproduced with permission of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment (formerly the Natural Resources Law Center) at the University of Colorado Law School.     Michael (Mickey) Glantz, Climate Change and … the Future of the American West, in CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST: EXPLORING THE LEGAL AND POLICY DIMENSIONS (Natural Res. Law Ctr., Univ. of Colo. Sch. of Law 2006).  Reproduced with permission of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment (formerly the Natural Resources Law Center) at the University of Colorado Law School.  Climate change and …  the Future of the American West  which, of course,  is tied to the future of the  American east, north and south  and the rest of the globe “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor”     Paul Simon, 1973 But…whose morality will prevail? “Global warming is the great hoax perpetrated on mankind”     Sen. Inhofe (R-OK)  “The accumulation of GHGs is a moral issue”        V.P. Gore, 2006 Climate Politics •  Greenhouse effect vs White House effect •  Turnabout is fair play •  Conservation vs exploitation •  Technophiles vs -phobes •  Dependence on free market mechanisms http://www.undoit.org/graphics/NewYorkerCartoon.jpg Climate Ethics and Equity • Generational equity •  (Intra- and Inter-generational) • Environmental justice •  (Downwind; Downstream)  • Natural disasters and poverty  •  (the poor tend to live in high-risk zones) •  Polluter Pays •  (Unless you are the polluter) • Precautionary Principle  •  (“better safe now than sorry later”) • Nature’s Bank analogy  •  (everyone knows about banks !! ) Size matters: CO2 emissions Where C02 emissions  come from (total emissions since 1950 in billions of tons) Winners and losers in global warming Daily burden to  fetch water and firewood Africa –water gatherers India – firewood gatherers Hurricane Mitch refugees (Oct.-Nov. 1998) Refugees at the Earnest Morial Convention Center (August 31, 2005) Hurricane Katrina Is this a specter of the future for industrialized countries? Staff photo by Ted Jackson Nobody wants to take the blame! Attributing responsibility for disasters A new role for climate…  as a scapegoat  for societal problems There is a “Lessons Learned” problem •  Lessons are identified after each disaster •   Why are lessons that are allegedly learned not applied? •   In fact, lessons are identified but often not learned !! Render unto climate … 1. Identify climate’s impacts  on societies and 2. Identify society’s contribution to those impacts 

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