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Eco-crisis and USA's Responsibility and Response - Focusing on the Climate Change -

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2017, 15(1), pp.185~209
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Hong, Seongtae 1

1상지대학교

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ABSTRACT

Today, the human race is confronted with ecocrisis represented by the global warming. Ecocrisis is the most universal and fundamental crisis because it can lead to extinction of all living creatures. But ecocrisis can be relieved and stopped by the human race's endeavor because it is artificial crisis. However, to do this, the responsibility must be cleared and the right practice must be actively executed. U.S.A. has the biggest responsibility ecocrisis because it is historically the biggest emission state of the green house gases and the archetype of contemporary society. In order to draw China that is presently the biggest emission state and to reform anti-ecological characteristics of contemporary society, U.S.A.'s reponse to ecocrisis is very important. The Republican Party is denying the global warming itself, but the Democratic Party has been continuously emphasizing the response, and Obama leaded the Paris Agreement with China's Xi Jinping. Obama government pursued the economic transition and ecological transition in the same time, opened a road to stabilize the response to ecocrisis on the economical dimension. But the future has become darkened because Trump who is a climate change denier was elected president of U.S.A.

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