Rebranding America

-Promote economic and social well being a global community.
-Emphasizing American diplomacy as the best tool to promoting international cooperation and enroll the international community in following us initiatives.
-The U.S. must engage in issues of equity and sustainable development.

page 20 OIL, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

-problem-
-"Climate change will bring catastrophic changes to our planet and has the potential to severely disrupt our civilization if we do not take action to stop the phenomenon. Glaciers are melting at a faster rate, the polar ice caps are shrinking and disappearing species are becoming extinct, weather patterns are changing, natural disasters are becoming more frequent and more powerful, and sea levels are rising. Our reliance on oil, especially foreign oil, is becoming a major issue,. Oil is believed to be a large contributor to climate change, it is also in limited supply as oil reserves around the world are diminishing. Due to this reliance on foreign oil we have had to keep strong relations with oil producing countries in the middle east and south America. Our recent ventures into Iraq and Afghanistan have threatened out relations with these oil-producing countries. Americas reliance on oil has become far to great costing us over a billion dollars a day."

Solving
-All US political envoys worldwide to be driven with hybrid vehicles.
-National campaign to change the climate that will show Americans specific change.
-Help new green companies go public with their technologies by providing them with tax breaks and added incentives for developing new green ideas.
-Large companies focus on high profit margins motivation to use greener technologies by giving them tax breaks to incorporate them into their companies.
-Funding for alternative energy, battling climate chage.
- "cap the trade" system incorporated into the climate change treaty will reward countries that have annual emissions in below the limit set in the treaty and punish countries that have exceeded their limit. = making emissions a trading commodity.