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3 Week Global Politics

The document discusses various topics related to renewable energy and the environment including employment in renewable energy, smart grids, super grids, reducing taxes on environmentally-friendly practices and imposing taxes on polluting practices, ecological tax reform, environmental problems from endocrine disrupting chemicals, impacts of electromagnetic fields and cell phones, global environmental degradation, impacts of climate change, and lack of funding for climate adaptation.

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3 Week Global Politics

The document discusses various topics related to renewable energy and the environment including employment in renewable energy, smart grids, super grids, reducing taxes on environmentally-friendly practices and imposing taxes on polluting practices, ecological tax reform, environmental problems from endocrine disrupting chemicals, impacts of electromagnetic fields and cell phones, global environmental degradation, impacts of climate change, and lack of funding for climate adaptation.

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Renewable Energy and Employment

Institute Energy Economic: 197,000 unemployment would be increased if all NPPs


are shut down in Japan.
IRENA (International Renewable Energy) 11,500,000 (11.5 million) employment
allover the world.
- Renewable energy is good for increasing employment

Key to faster Renewables Energy

1. Smart Grid:
- Conventional Grid: one way from large power plants: systems loss,
vulnerable to natural disaster…
- Smart meter: displays uses and prices of electricity of factories, homes,
etc…
- Smart Grid: it is the opposite between the conventional one.
Decentralized mutual ways of grid networks. Decentralizing places to
generate and transmit electricity and transact electricity between
suppliers and consumers.

IMPACTS:
a) Renewable energy supply will be increased
b) Consumption at peak time will be reduced: about 40% of all
plants would be unnecessary

EUROPE: Third Directive of EU Electricity


● Liberalization

2. Super Grid: underwater direct current high-voltage cable connected from


Hokkaido to Kyushu. By this method all Japan could we supplied with
electricity !
- Asia Super Grid: expansion of supergrid throughout Asia (like in
Europe).

REDUCING TAX ON “GOODS” WHILE IMPOSING TAX ON “BADS”

- “Goods” for environment and society: tax reduction for example.


- “Bads” for environment and society: having taxes or paying tremendous
amount of money for example.
Ecological Tax Reform

Environmental tax: reducing negative impacts on environment


Revenue is used for social welfare !

Especially used for supporting social insurance cost by companies, raising standart if
social welfare, supporting “goods actions”.
➔ According to the public comments and hearings conducted by government,
more than 80% support the idea. Japanese government set a target: no more
nuclear power plants in 2030’s (this was setted 12 years ago)
Government avoided cabinet decision !
➔ Prime Minister Abe declare to promote nuclear power.

Environmental problems in our daily living

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC’s): substances in the environment, food


sources, personal care products, and manufactured products that interfere with the
normal function of body’s endocrine system.
● EDC’s can disrupt many different hormones, which is why they have been
linked to numerous adverse human health outcomes.

Jury Awards Groundskeeper 289.2 Million in Landmark Monsanto Roundup Verdict


Dewayne Johnson v Monsanto Company was the first Roundup cancer lawsuit to
proceed to trial Mr. Johnson’s lawsuit alleges exposure to Monsanto’s Roudup weed
killer and its active ingredient, glyphosate caused Dewayne Johnson a chemical
reaction on his body.

Negative Impacts of EDC’s

- Alterations in sperm, quality and fertility


- Abnormalities in sex organs
- Endometriosis
- Early puberty
- Altered nervous system function, inmune function
- Cancer
(...) In resume, it can caused several diseases, normally EDC’s is in plastics
when you warm it, so it is a normal substance
➔ FDA concerns about a feeding bottle made of polycarbonate

According to professor at Kwansei Gakuin University


● Professor Susumu Imaoka biochemistry expert, infers that endocrine
disrupting chemicals that are included in a pesticide and a detergent etc. have
a negative effect on our health and that we must find other alternatives.
Japan-EU Joint Study found that Japanese men have the least number of sperms
● Young Japanese do not have normal sperm: just 1 out of 34 has a normal
one. EDC’s could cause this phenomena.

Hidden Side of Food

- Meet ball: blending 30 kinds of “white chemical powders” with junk meat to be
abandoned
- Non-dairy creamer: made of water, oil and an “additive”
- Ham, health beverage: colored by smashing an insect
- Cut vegetables, packed salad: disinfected by “a germicide (sodium
hypochlorite”)

Japanese people intake 4kg of artificial additives per year !

Electromagnetic fields

EDC’s are detected when food rapped by cling film is warmed by microwave. It is
also important having distance from the microwave.

Intelligent phones are also bad for our health because electromagnetic waves are
harm for our health !

Cell Phone negatively affect Sperms?


- Hungarian Research teams announced a possibility that cell phones have a
negative effect on sperms.

Potential Health Effects by 5G

According to Martin Paul 5G “Electromagnetic fields by 5G gives negative impacts


on fertility, brain and cardiovascular functions, influencing DNA”, in other words 5G
could cause:
- Blindness
- Hearing loss or deafness
- Male infertility
- Nervous system disorders
- Thyroid and Immune system dysfunction
- Low blood oxygenation
Coping with Electromagnetuc Fields: Overseas

➔ Sweeden:
- Regulation levels: 2 mili-meter gauss
- Removing or relocating power cables or putting them underground
- Prohibiting house

➔ Brussels: Experiment and implementation of 5G is prohibited on 2 April 2019


➔ Italy: Government announces the court judgement to limit the use of 5G
➔ Japan:
- There’s no regulation in Japan for 5G
- In Kadoma City leucemia is found more commonly than in other
regions

Global Environmental Degradation

Forest equivalent to two Tokyo Domes is being degraded every minute.


We also have the problem of the South Pole ice being melted and causing a great
tsunami that destroy power plants and cause a problem regarding human
survivance.

Food System Shock

- Largest cause of deforestation


- 25% of CO2 emission
- ⅓ food is thrown away

- 10 billion of people will be affected by 250


- Changing diet to meat
- Land degradation
- Water shortage (5 millions of persons will not have water)
- Impacts by climate change

(demand) (supply)

35% of global land area:


55% of global population: are subject to more than 20 days a year of lethal heat
conditions
⅕ decline in crop fields

Food exporting countries will embarg their food export; this is called Food System
Shock.

➔ Japan: Self-sufficiency rate of food (crop) 28% percent


Impact of Climate Change on Tropical Forest

In 2100, two-third of Amazon forest will be disappeared, changed into desert


Forest will be an emission source of CO2

Carbon Budget

How much can humans still emit CO2 if global average temperature should be below
1.5 degree un 2050?
➔ 420 giga ton as of 1 January 2018

Lack of Huge Finance

UNEP: $500 billion (Yen 75 trillion)/year for adaptation


International Energy Agency (IEA) $1.1 trillion (Yen 165 trillion)/year
Total amount of ODA in 2016: $223.7 billion (Yen 33.6 million)

ALMOST NO POSSIBILITY TO FUND CLIMATE !

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 trillion

As the world struggles to restrict global warming to 1.5 degrees, subsidies for oil,
coal and natural gas are costing the equivalent of 7.1 percent of global gross
domestic product

That’s more than governments spend annually on education (4,3 percent of global
income)

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