The Pollution-friendly trade deal, what is it? Why did it get this nickname? The reason is upon weather TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, will be approved by the twelve nations negotiating the treaty. These twelve nations include Australia, Bruner Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, The United States, and Vietnam. This treaty will bring free-trade to these countries and others that wish to be a part of it. The problem is that this treaty is over 6,000 pages long and has no information about how to handle climate change. Not to mention, there is a new crisis in our world today affecting us all not just a nation. This deal was made for the world of the past, not the twenty-first century. Furthermore, the TPP should not be approved because the dependence on fossil fuels will grow, it would give power to corporations to fight
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Equally, In A Dirty Deal, if TPP is passed the involvement of exporting fossil fuel gases such as LNG, liquefied natural gas, will lead to disrupting the climate for years to come (3). With increased exports of LNG, the issues of fracking will lead to an even higher rate of pollution of water and air. In addition, In A Dirty Deal, scientists have stated that fossil fuel need to stay in the ground or it will destroy the earth. TPP would give natural gas industries more business in the United States by letting them export it to other countries as a part of the deal (9). Not to mention Solomon points out, “These agreements are really locking us into dependence on fossil fuels when we need to be fully ramping up to 100 percent clean energy, and leaving the vast majority of fossil fuels in the ground” (Ho). This statement shows that there needs to be a change and TPP is not the answer we need. Fossil fuels need to stay in the ground and the world needs to find a clean energy
Equally, In A Dirty Deal, if TPP is passed the involvement of exporting fossil fuel gases such as LNG, liquefied natural gas, will lead to disrupting the climate for years to come (3). With increased exports of LNG, the issues of fracking will lead to an even higher rate of pollution of water and air. In addition, In A Dirty Deal, scientists have stated that fossil fuel need to stay in the ground or it will destroy the earth. TPP would give natural gas industries more business in the United States by letting them export it to other countries as a part of the deal (9). Not to mention Solomon points out, “These agreements are really locking us into dependence on fossil fuels when we need to be fully ramping up to 100 percent clean energy, and leaving the vast majority of fossil fuels in the ground” (Ho). This statement shows that there needs to be a change and TPP is not the answer we need. Fossil fuels need to stay in the ground and the world needs to find a clean energy