Sovereignty against climate change

Is it climate change and global warming even a thing? As incredible as it seems this is the question
that half of the world population ask themselves. People around the world do not know what is
going on and how critical the situation is. We humans have been modifying our environment,
hunting our species, throwing plastic to our oceans, consuming oil; all that with no measurement
but the model of consumerism we are involved in. This is not something invented to scare children
and put them to bed, this is a real threat to our existence and we have been seeing the consequences:
longer summers, shorter but brutal winters, cities so polluted we need masks to go on the streets;
and still it seems is a problem we ignore. However, over the past decades some efforts has been
done, such AS KYOTO PROTOCOL and Paris agreement. Both treaties that looked for reducing
the emissions. These international treaties can be related to a contract where the parts involved
take obligations managed by the united nations in theses case. But as we have seen nothing has
changed, which is sad that even knowing we are killing ourselves, we do not care enough to make
a significant change. But why? For me, because of a right called sovereignty that holds every
country. Sovereignty is the right to exercise supreme, independent authority or jurisdiction over
the territory. Even with an international treaty, the nature of these are just binding if the country is
willing to uphold his part, if it is no longer interested it can easily drop out, considering that countries
has the last decision in their territories. There is really nothing that the united nations can do to make
a country follow a treaty based on the autonomy that it has over itself. An example of these is United
States – one of the major contributor to emissions and pollution- who dropout of the paris agreedment
and still there is nothing the other countries can do the compel it. So for me this is like hitting a wall
because even having the best intentions, realizing that climate and global warming are a real thing,
we still cannot make the world safer because of the power the countries have over themselves. It
seems like a country sovereign is not responsible to anybody and is not bound by any laws. This is
frustrating because then the two rights go in a balance, in one side is the right to have sovereignty
over their countries but in the other side is the health and interest of a whole world. Even so is
clear wich right has more weight. Soverenity keeps being the major obstacule for achiving the
treaties and emission goals stablish by the international community and seems that regarding the
disapproval of the other countries, states like USA can say we are not going to comply with this
and nothing happens. In a matter of this critical situation as is our subsistence in the planet I found
that sovereignty hurts us more that help us. It is sad that gives countries so much power over
decisions that not only affects them but the rest of the world. That is why I donnot think that this
right should be used in this matter. Because the damage is not done only in the country that take
the decision of not complying with the agreement, the rest of the world get consequences. And that
is not the definition of the sovereignty