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.
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Current U.S. Administration's Stance on Climate Change and its Effects
In a stark parallel to his predecessor, President Trump mobilized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to begin to deregulate greenhouse gas emission reporting, reporting of regulations of power plants, and the reconsideration of regulations placed on the oil and gas industry in March. While President Biden quickly called world leaders to join in an agreement to limit the 100-year climate-change outlook to a predicted 1.5 degrees Celsius, the current U.S. administration has confirmed its decision not to send a delegate to the upcoming COP 30 hosted by the UN and will shy away from active talks on worldwide climate policy. In an effort to combat inflation in the United States and fulfill his campaign promise of making gas, oil, and electricity prices cheaper, President Trump has also repealed many regulatory agencies and standards, including the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for American energy and manufacturing centers and the Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards. How will the United States’ reversal on its stance on climate change influence less developed second and third-world countries and their climate change policies? Additionally, how will its repeal of greenhouse gas regulations influence other big contributors in deciding to reaffirm their own climate change policies?
