{"id":122,"date":"2014-01-07T19:31:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=122"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:10:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:10:56","slug":"nature-does-not-negotiate-at-the-un-climate-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2014\/01\/07\/nature-does-not-negotiate-at-the-un-climate-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nature Does Not Negotiate&#8221; at the UN Climate Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite all the news about an icy &#8220;polar vortex&#8221; currently gripping the United States, debates over climate change were quite heated at the United Nations Climate Summit. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2013\/11\/21\/nature_does_not_negotiate_environmentalists_walk\">In a recent interview<\/a> addressing the protests at this year\u2019s conference, Greenpeace Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo said, \u201cOur message to our political leaders is that nature does not negotiate\u2026You can\u2019t change the science \u2014 we have to change political will.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2013\/11\/7\/headlines#1171\">Recent figures<\/a> indicate that greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere are at an all-time high, and The World Meteorological Organization projects greenhouse gas emissions will be 12 billion tons higher in 2020. \u00a0Such an increase will likely result in a temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius. \u00a0As greenhouse gas emissions rise, so are anxieties among many social scientists.<\/p>\n<h5 dir=\"ltr\">Sociological research suggests that the culture of organizations within the environmental movement itself is responsible for the lack of traction on addressing climate change.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pages.drexel.edu\/~brullerj\/\">Brulle, Robert<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.osu.edu\/people\/jenkins\">Jenkins, J. C.<\/a> \u00a02008, Spring. <a href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/docview\/58838112\">\u201cFixing the Bungled U.S. Environmental\u00a0Movement.\u201d<\/a> <em>Contexts<\/em>. 7: 14-19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Which countries are more likely to take a seat at the negotiating table? The following study offers some predictions based on a macro-level analysis of global inequalities between rich and poor countries.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.brown.edu\/myresearch\/J._Timmons_Roberts\">Roberts, J. T.<\/a> 1996. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1475-682X.1996.tb00208.x\/abstract\">\u201cPredicting Participation in Environmental Treaties: A World-System Analysis.\u201d<\/a> <em>Sociological Inquiry.<\/em> 66(1): 38-57.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all the news about an icy &#8220;polar vortex&#8221; currently gripping the United States, debates over climate change were quite heated at the United Nations Climate Summit. \u00a0In a recent interview addressing the protests at this year\u2019s conference, Greenpeace Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo said, \u201cOur message to our political leaders is that nature does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1956,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[833,38546],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-climate-change","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2014\/01\/393457154_e36efbfdaf_z.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}