The Millenium Development Goals, agreed to by every member country of the United Nations in 2000, call for the worldwide eradication of poverty and hunger, universal education, gender equality and huge improvements in health by 2015: two years ago!!
Can we do this without making the planet warmer?
Let's think big and imagine how we can confront the climate crisis in a way that is realistic about the other major problems that we face as a planet and as a species on it.
Clean Development >
Development of undeveloped countries
I think that an important aspect of lowering carbon emissions is finding a way of clean development. Countries like Nigeria, Niger, and other countries that are in the process of developing need a way to cleanly develop without carbon emissions; Considering the sheer amount of people that they have not being fully developed, a fully developed Nigeria would require tons of carbon emissions to built facilities for all the people that a fully developed Nigeria would have. If nothing is done about clean development then it would lead to an ever larger carbon emission because this second wave of development would dwarf the old development of the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and other long developed countries.