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 >
Reduce carbon footprint
Renewable energies mean a reduction in CO2 emissions and other environmental impacts, since they avoid the burning of fossil fuels and other polluting activities such as those of the nuclear cycle.
Influencing that energy sources for our domestic uses are cleaner, however, is not easy. For example, in our country there is still no electricity company that offers only "green electricity", that is, electricity from 100% renewable energy. As users we have few options to support production with clean energy, although we can know what percentage of the electricity we pay comes from renewable energy sources, what percentage from nuclear, etc. as this information should appear on the invoice. We could also inform the company of our interest in receiving electricity from renewable energies and try to create a trend.
I think that asking companies for electricity from renewable energy sources is a really good idea. If it did manage to start a trend it would lower the demand for energy from nonrenewable sources and raise demand for energy from renewable sources. This would force companies to use less nonrenewable energy sources.