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 >
Why should we protect and take care our environment?
Our surroundings serve as both our home and the basis for everything that keeps us alive. It aids in our survival in a variety of ways, including providing us with food, water, air, shelter, and other necessities. Therefore, preserving the environment should come naturally to all of us. If we don't protect our environment and do not give them as much care as they need, not only it would affect the climate, but it would also affect humans as well as wildlife. So it is important to take good care of our environment.
I completely agree. We should protect our environment at all costs, but sadly we are going down a very rocky path, and not much wide spread change seems to be happening to fix it. If every country got together to fix the path we are going down right now, we could fix the climate. We still have time to change and fix things, so we should all start advocation and living cleaner, before it becomes too late.
I 100% agree with these. Our environment is our home, but not just humans, this includes wildlife, the climate, the plants, our environment is the earth and that’s our whole world right here. Something humans are destroying daily with out even knowing. But there are also the people who do know what they are doing to the planet and still continue. We do need to get together and inform the people who don’t know what there doing, what they’re not only doing but the effects of it and how deadly it really is. And we definitely need to stop the people who know what there doin to stop doing it, because once we take up and use all the materials what’s the real value of money if u can’t even buy anything.
Protecting our environment should be a main focus to everyone. Not everyone realizes what’s going on with our earth itself, and those who do, don’t particularly care. People don’t do anything until it officially affects them. “Oh this country flooded? Yeah it’s no where near me it doesn’t effect me”, but as soon as it does, all of a sudden people become big climate advocates, instead of teaching them to be self-aware from the beginning. If you think warming is the only issue, just wait till you hear about abnormal natural disasters that will follow through and destroy our planet. Those who are also aware, are only aware for their well-being, when there’s many other organisms to worry about. Think about plants, animals, bugs, etc disappearing for good, leaving us with nothing. It’s our mistakes and decisions as human-beings that are not only effecting our environment, but other living organisms, us, and our future children. There are little steps we can all take as a nation to cut down on carbon, no matter how “unflattering” these steps may seem, they will end up helping in the long run. Personally what I think is more “unflattering” then for example using clean energy powered wind turbines is a destroyed environment, with no return to fix our mistakes.