Effects of Climate Change on International Politics

Geopolitics Term Paper
Student Name
University
Course
Professor’s Name
Date
Part I: Analytical Essay I - What are the (potential) effects of climate change on international politics?
Introduction
Climate change is significantly influencing global politics in different dimensions. It is an area of critical concern to geopolitics because humanity is constantly shaping its environment on vast magnitudes compared to contemporary formulations focusing on technological advancement, development promise, and the alleged control and domination of nature. The creation of wealth is tied to the exploitation of natural resources, and military power is derived from such productive capabilities, especially with the advent of the “high-tech” weaponry that is increasingly influencing and dominating strategic considerations.
Body
Potential agricultural disruptions, rising sea levels, the potential vulnerabilities from world fires, extreme weather, and drought constantly change the landscape of global relations. Political decisions concerning the economic modes and specific decisions related to the exploitation of energy sources directly shape humanity’s future context, quite literally reinventing substantial “geo” locations. Decisions concerning whether to augment fossil fuel extraction capabilities or generate more solar panels, including the utilization of regenerative forestry cultures rather than clear-cutting, are now having significant implications on the Earth System’s functionality. This is shaping geopolitics because serious policy decisions concerning the shift from fossil fuel to ecological, economic strategies, and renewable energy are being executed and enforced. Energy systems, as well as the employment of firepower, is not simply a matter of relative hegemony within the global system, the conventional geopolitics theme, but currently constitutes a matter of impact on the Earth System configuration in the future.
In addition, geographical perspectives concerning the nature of the global political order are important to security policy formulation. Trump administration’s international politics formulations highlighted this to inform competitiveness and its outright rejection of the recommendations that there exists a global framework of any implication. While this coincided with the former President’s notions of dominance and competition within the global landscape, the implications of the Earth System were profound when the fossil fuel economy mode he championed dominated the internal economic landscape for extended timescales. Trump’s programs constituted both rejections of the global system as well as of the environmental implications of fossil-fueled economic development – directly with regards to climate change and indirectly with regards to the extinction crisis globally that expanded resource appropriations as well as changes in land mass utilization.
Conclusion
Climate change impacts international politics by influencing national laws and programs that seek to create a political and economic hegemony in the global arena. For example, the Trump administration’s use of fossil fuel to drive economic development raised moral que...