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 >
Renewable Energy
I think converting to renewable energy would be beneficial to reducing our carbon footprint. In my opinion, geothermal energy is the most effective. There are practically no negative impacts of geothermal energy and it relies on the internal heat of the Earth, so it will always be constant, unlike wind or solar energy. Also, geothermal heat pumps have about a 25-year life span, so there will be virtually no extra spending after installation. One downfall of geothermal heat pumps is that they require the usage of a lot of water, but if we cut back on shower time, dishwashing, and use the famous, “If it’s yellow, let it mellow”, we could overall cut back on our water consumption and reduce our carbon footprint.