Can we solve the climate crisis without confronting global inequities?
A recent study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA found that white residents in the USA produce more climate pollution than black or hispanic residents, but black and hispanic people are exposed to more air pollution.
And that is just the USA! Think about the global inequities in the "haves" and the "have nots".
And how are we going to lift people out of poverty without making the climate crisis even worse?
If you are a resident in a wealthy country, is it your responsibility to address both problems at once? And what would that look like in terms of national and international policy?
Environmental Justice >
Getting our lawmakers to pass laws to help climate change
A lot of the Carbon in the atmosphere right now are from big factories. While people can do as much as they can to help reduce their carbon footprint, a big part of where it’s coming from are the factories. I think that lawmakers should pass laws that force big factories to use alternative methods for powering their factories and give them a deadline by which they should have changed these methods.
I completely agree. I think that even if individuals do as much as they can day to day, if won’t be enough. While we emit a fair amount of carbon, factories do much more than us. As much as activists and politicians speak out, they can’t control what people do as a reaction. But if laws were passed, that would require immediate action, and therefore a much better result.