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There is a novel about this very thing called Ministry For the Future. In the book, the UN agency formed to enforce the Paris agreement has no teeth. It takes
by filoeleven 5y ago
There is a novel about this very thing called Ministry For the Future.
In the book, the UN agency formed to enforce the Paris agreement has no teeth. It takes some high-profile climate disasters to get some countries to pay attention, and some eco-terrorism to get corporations/one-percenters to pay attention. Only after that does the agency get any real power to set standards and hold anyone to them.
It’s a broadly optimistic novel despite all that. I’m less sanguine about the outcome in the real world, but I fully expect some of the same tragedies (massive heat waves that kill maybe millions) and terrorism (drone swarms bringing down airliners/private jets) to occur.