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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New Smog Regulations
Smog emissions have proven to be a problem not only in urbanized industrial areas, but also throughout the rest of the world (although I'm focusing on the United States). Under the Bush administration, smog-emission regulations fell far short of the national standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Now, however, the Obama administration has unveiled a major new regulation on smog-causing emissions that spew from smokestacks and tailpipes. Although more stringent than before, public health advocates and environmentalists still say that the regulations are not to the standard that they had hoped. Smog has been linked to asthma, heart and lung disease, and premature death and thus it is very important to regulate its emission to protect public safety. These new regulations fall under the Obama administration's Clean Air Act, which garnered great refute from the coal-supporting Republicans. To take action into our own hands, we can limit our driving, fire burning, etc.