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Humanity tends to lack a long-term perspective because there has been little in our evolutionary history that rewards such thinking. But long-term strategies can help avert existential threats we create ourselves, such as climate change, lab-engineered viruses and rogue AI.
Unable to enact cap-and-trade legislation, even when he was supported by filibuster-proof majorities in Congress, President Barack Obama famously claimed, “Cap and trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way.”[1] The primary alternative way to skin the cat is regulation by federal agencies, especially by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The Cairo Review of Global Affairs is the quarterly journal of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) at American University in Cairo.
Extreme weather events are nothing new. Many creatures have had to adapt to big changes, over millions of years. But the climate crisis is putting flora and fauna under unprecedented pressure.
Europe’s restrictions limiting the hydrofluorocarbons in recent years increased the prices and ignited the greenhouse gases black market.