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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Leading the Green Initiative
Sweden is known for being cleanest country in the world, stemming from their early investments in renewable energy following the oil crisis of the 1970s. Although the average energy consumption per capita is one of the highest in the world, Sweden has been able to decrease their greenhouse gas emissions to around half of their developed country counterparts through utilizing hydrologic, wind, and nuclear power. Much of the market’s stimulation was jumpstarted by the Swedish government, pushing for green research and the implementation of green technologies on a national level.
That being said, the United States and Germany have some of the highest rates of CO2 emissions in the world—something that is concerning considering that they are some of the biggest geopolitical powerhouses on Earth. In essence, if the leaders of all nations cannot pioneer the path toward renewable energy usage, who will? If the major countries (with extremely high populations) do not make shifts toward green energy, how adversely impacted will the whole human population be impacted?
https://sweden.se/society/energy-use-in-sweden/