“The politics of climate change remains too shallow and weak even to turn this agreement into real change. All the action now returns to the 188 countries that, in theory, are now going to cut their carbon emissions.”
Duke professors call the rhetoric in this year’s presidential campaign extreme, in large part because of Donald Trump. “Unfortunately, this behavior tends to induce a race to the bottom, where other candidates, not wanting to be shut out from media attention, try to match or one-up his positions,” says political scientist David Siegel.
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“The politics of climate change remains too shallow and weak even to turn this agreement into real change. All the action now returns to the 188 countries that, in theory, are now going to cut their carbon emissions.”
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Duke professors call the rhetoric in this year’s presidential campaign extreme, in large part because of Donald Trump. “Unfortunately, this behavior tends to induce a race to the bottom, where other candidates, not wanting to be shut out from media attention, try to match or one-up his positions,” says political scientist David Siegel.
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