Author: Ricky Chen

With the global epidemic that is climate change upon us. It is time for political leaders around the world to start taking notice and preparing plans to tackle this huge epidemic. One way we could look at this problem is from the perspective of game theory and Yoginder K Alagh even goes as far as to say this is where the solution lies. Intuitively, we would not think of tackling climate change in this approach but when we think of the major stakeholders in terms of climate change, then it makes a lot of sense. 

We have the big oil companies who do NOT want climate action to happen or else they lose a lot of money and then we have the other side of the spectrum of people who want to see a change. People who feel the effects of climate change want to see the world in a better place and want to see action. By looking at this problem from a game theory perspective, we can come up with nash equilibriums and find the best course of action. Of course, how would we justify the numbers? That is very hard to do and perhaps will take more time to justify. That being said, Berkeley has tackled game theory for climate change in the economic sense and has come to a few conclusions. Reducing global emissions is good, and no international agency can enforce environment agreements. It needs to be done by each country of their own.

So what does this mean for us in the future? Well, a step in the right direction is still a step and looking at things from different perspectives may find us an unexpected answer.

https://are.berkeley.edu/~traeger/Lectures/ClimateChangeEconomics/Slides/7%20International%20Cooperation%20-%201%20A%20Game%20Theoretic%20Perspective.pdf

https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/climate-change-game-theory-holds-a-solution/1757991/

The study shown in the article tells us the surprising fact that most enterprise networks are actually incapable of handling big data loads. With the rise of technology and the fact that most households now have access to a device that is hooked up to the web through personal devices or public ones in the library. It is very surprising that a large number of companies cannot handle the flow of data through their networks. Just like what was said in class, a graph could be used to represent the networks we use for the internet, with the nodes being the devices (routers, switches, etc for either the enterprise or just any normal household) and the edges being the connection between two nodes (a connection meaning they can send data packets to each other). Lots of information are being sent every day and it seems that the speed at which technology is coming out exceeds the rate at which our companies can handle right now.

This is really interesting to me because with how much money there is to be made from the tech industry, I would guess that businesses are able to keep up with the growing demands. The reality of the situation, however, is not too surprising because of how big those networks are. The ones talked about in class with only 15 nodes are already really confusing to look at so when thinking about the billions of devices around the world, it makes a lot more sense why it is really complicated to pull off. This has really opened my eyes because it has made me understand more about the scope of these networks and how large of a scale they operate at.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3440519/most-enterprise-networks-cant-handle-big-data-loads.html