It is the chapter I sent out on 2021-03-31, titled "Japan is not different from a lamb going out to a roast meat party held by wolves."
Shohei Nagatsuji wrote an irregular article in Sankei Shimbun titled "Solomon's Hood."
The following is an article in today's Sankei Shimbun titled "The Real Face of the Climate Crisis: Japan Will Sink if We Are Fired Up.
It is a must-read not only for Japanese citizens but for people around the world.
With the return of the United States to the Paris Agreement on global warming prevention measures, the movement toward a "decarbonized society" is gaining momentum, especially in the United States and Europe.
Last October, Japan declared "virtually zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2010," will be forced to add to its 30-year reduction target at the April climate summit and other forums.
Global warming countermeasures and economic activities are two sides of the same coin.
If Japan goes to international negotiations on CO2 emission reductions by comparing the height of the targets, the fate of Japanese society will be in its own hands.
Background of Global Warming Theory
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emphasizes that the average global temperature is rising.
However, the pace is only about 0.7 degrees Celsius per 100 years.
The IPCC attributes the cause to increased atmospheric CO2, but global temperatures fluctuate naturally.
In the 1970s, there was concern about global cooling.
The global warming theory emerged to replace the end of the Cold War around 1990.
The first voices came from the U.K.
Some analysts believe that the European Union (E.U.) was trying to suppress the independent drive of the United States, which had won the Cold War, by reducing CO2 emissions.
No one can deny the importance of the Earth.
The global warming threat theory has taken the world by storm, leading to establishment of the IPCC in 1988 and the adoption of the Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.
It was not until 1997 that the "Kyoto Protocol," under which only developed countries are obligated to reduce CO2 emissions, was born.
However, the burden of CO2 reduction stipulated in the Protocol favored Europe and disadvantaged Japan.
However, the burden of reducing CO2 emissions under the Protocol favored Europe and disadvantaged Japan.
The U.S. demanded a higher reduction rate from Japan and withdrew from the Protocol.
Negotiations were horrific because then U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who attended the Kyoto Conference, was aware from the outset that the U.S. would not participate in the Protocol.
The Kyoto Protocol, which had been in jeopardy, finally entered into force in 2005.
It resulted from Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to push through the process.
Not only the E.U. but also Russia realized the benefits of emissions trading.
During the Kyoto Protocol period, Japan purchased emission allowances from overseas.
China, a significant emitter, acquired environmental technology from Japan and other countries under laughably favorable terms without having to reduce its emissions.
The Energy Revolution is War
This year marks the 30th anniversary of adopting the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Today, the generation under 40 has heard about global warming caused by CO2 since childhood.
No wonder they fear the coming of global warming hell.
Greta Thunberg, a youth representative, may be one such person.
Shohei Nagatsuji wrote an irregular article in Sankei Shimbun titled "Solomon's Hood."
The following is an article in today's Sankei Shimbun titled "The Real Face of the Climate Crisis: Japan Will Sink if We Are Fired Up.
It is a must-read not only for Japanese citizens but for people around the world.
With the return of the United States to the Paris Agreement on global warming prevention measures, the movement toward a "decarbonized society" is gaining momentum, especially in the United States and Europe.
Last October, Japan declared "virtually zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2010," will be forced to add to its 30-year reduction target at the April climate summit and other forums.
Global warming countermeasures and economic activities are two sides of the same coin.
If Japan goes to international negotiations on CO2 emission reductions by comparing the height of the targets, the fate of Japanese society will be in its own hands.
Background of Global Warming Theory
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emphasizes that the average global temperature is rising.
However, the pace is only about 0.7 degrees Celsius per 100 years.
The IPCC attributes the cause to increased atmospheric CO2, but global temperatures fluctuate naturally.
In the 1970s, there was concern about global cooling.
The global warming theory emerged to replace the end of the Cold War around 1990.
The first voices came from the U.K.
Some analysts believe that the European Union (E.U.) was trying to suppress the independent drive of the United States, which had won the Cold War, by reducing CO2 emissions.
No one can deny the importance of the Earth.
The global warming threat theory has taken the world by storm, leading to establishment of the IPCC in 1988 and the adoption of the Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.
It was not until 1997 that the "Kyoto Protocol," under which only developed countries are obligated to reduce CO2 emissions, was born.
However, the burden of CO2 reduction stipulated in the Protocol favored Europe and disadvantaged Japan.
However, the burden of reducing CO2 emissions under the Protocol favored Europe and disadvantaged Japan.
The U.S. demanded a higher reduction rate from Japan and withdrew from the Protocol.
Negotiations were horrific because then U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who attended the Kyoto Conference, was aware from the outset that the U.S. would not participate in the Protocol.
The Kyoto Protocol, which had been in jeopardy, finally entered into force in 2005.
It resulted from Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to push through the process.
Not only the E.U. but also Russia realized the benefits of emissions trading.
During the Kyoto Protocol period, Japan purchased emission allowances from overseas.
China, a significant emitter, acquired environmental technology from Japan and other countries under laughably favorable terms without having to reduce its emissions.
The Energy Revolution is War
This year marks the 30th anniversary of adopting the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Today, the generation under 40 has heard about global warming caused by CO2 since childhood.
No wonder they fear the coming of global warming hell.
Greta Thunberg, a youth representative, may be one such person.
Under President Biden, the United States has shown its commitment to the transition to a decarbonized society by returning to the Paris Agreement, which it had withdrawn from under the Trump administration.
The climate summit that Mr. Biden will hold on April 22 may be aimed at regaining control of measures from European countries and connecting them to the new industrial revolution in a manner favorable to the United States.
Under the Paris Agreement, which replaced the Kyoto Protocol, Japan has pledged to reduce its CO2 emissions by 26% in FY2030 compared to the FY13 level. Still, international pressure is now mounting to increase the target.
How does Japan intend to achieve this goal when even the 6% reduction under the Kyoto Protocol was so challenging?
Even though the economic war sparked by CO2 has begun, Japan is currently trying to attend the climate summit without any sense of tension.
One example of the war is Japan's windstorm over hybrid vehicles (H.V.s).
Toyota's Prius, introduced around the same time the Kyoto Protocol was adopted, attracted the world's attention as an environmentally friendly vehicle. Still, under the Paris Agreement, it could be displaced by electric vehicles (E.V.s) as a type of gasoline-powered car.
Japan's primary industry is facing a crisis, but there is little sense of crisis.
The European Union (E.U.) and the United Kingdom have announced that they will increase their reductions for the 30-year target. Still, both have set the base year at 1990, the same year as the Kyoto Protocol, which is favorable to both parties.
If Japan announces unreasonable reduction targets to win praise from the U.S., Europe, and other countries, Japan will fall prey to the international community.
It is no different from a lamb going to a roast meat party held by wolves.
Japan's main course should be to pursue the path of emission reductions through technological cooperation with developing countries.
Contrary to the ideologized "climate crisis," the powerful nations are focused on the development of the Arctic.
The white ice in the Arctic Ocean is the Earth's cooling system. Yet, using the thinning of the ice as an opportunity, they are rushing to open up shipping lanes by launching icebreakers and are even running to obtain undersea resources.
The desire to prevent global warming, which is irreplaceable, has been hidden behind the noble call of "preventing global warming" and now peeks out from beneath the sea ice.
The IPCC is also unaware of the development of the Arctic Ocean.
It can also smell the desire of the renewable energy industry behind the exclusion of H.V.s and coal-fired power generation.
Decarbonization is nothing short of an energy revolution.
Revolutions are relentless.
Innovation that accompanies change can be expected, but Japan should not be used as a stepping stone.
Fueled by the "climate crisis," we fall into an "economic crisis."
The Paris Accord's massive wave will surpass the Kyoto Protocol.
