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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Newer energy source for planes
After looking at the significant impact plane flights had on my carbon footprint, I began to talk with my mom about different ways we could possibly make planes more efficient. What if we could continue to use gas to get up in the air, but someone harness the energy of the wind against the plane self sustain itself in flight? I understand that there are many physics questions of how we might convert the wind into energy without providing resistance against the plane that would hinder its progress more than the energy provided would help it. Do you think it might be possible to find a way where planes could be more energy efficient and possibly create their own energy? Could solar powered planes function, would their relative closer proximity to the sun allow them a high enough intensity of solar power to help propel the plane?