And a climate change problem.
And so on.For climate change, the trouble is that though few dispute that it is occurring, no one knows how severe it will be or what damage it will cause.
Though the Kyoto treaty on climate change is in trouble, the EU has made its targets legally binding.
There is no way to rebalance the global economy, slow climate change, manage the trouble kicked up by rogue states and keep the peace in Asia unless Washington and Beijing work together in as many areas as possible.
That was meant to have the pleasing effect of galvanising politicians, and jump-starting the century-long process of dealing with climate change seriously.The trouble is that front-loading deep cuts makes them much more expensive to implement.
The Guardian reported last July that Exxon's own scientists were aware as early as 1981 that climate change could spell trouble for the oil business – years before global warming become a broad public concern.
Global leaders seriously worried about climate change are having trouble getting more people to share that concern.
BRUSSELS — Negotiations to save the planet from catastrophic climate change are heading for trouble, five weeks before the U.N. conference in Copenhagen to tackle the problem.
Population, consumption and devastating production methods are at the root of so many of our environmental troubles, including climate change, air and water pollution, the wildlife extinction crisis and the loss of habitat around the globe.
In a May 1 speech to the League of Conservation voters, Oregon's Brown, also a Democrat, blamed climate change for her state's troubles: "The evidence is compelling: record low snowpack, the warmest winter since 1895, and seven Oregon counties in states of drought emergency before the end of April — and I predict more on the way".
