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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Is green energy a positive and profitable solution?
When people say that making things eco-friendly is profitable, it is not as simple as it seems to be. For example cars powered by electricity. Car companies profit alot more money from gas-powered cars than electric cars. The cost to produce these cars is much more than the profit they get from selling them and even if we all start driving electric cars, there will more demand for electricity and therefore more powerplants and genertors will be created. The result will have devestating effects on wildlife and nature.
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While driving more electric cars will cause for an increase in the use of electricity, this is much better for the environment than the current amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. This is the most CO2 in our environment in the history of humanity and this is largely caused by car emissions. Electric cars are actually a smart step in the direction of becoming more eco-friendly. In regards to the profit off of electric cars, in this scenario environmental benefits should outweigh cost benefits. Also, for the owner of an electric car they are actually saving money but not needing to buy gas which is an incentive to purchase an electric car.
The more we try to use eco-friendly products, the faster we can advance them to be more effective and cheaper. It is possible to have affordable clean energy. We just have to start and put in the effort to find ways to make them more effective. An electric car is a great example. The more people switch over to these cars, the more that the companies can work ways to make it more energy efficient.
I believe with the previous statements. Currently, human actions are causing a release of CO2 emissions at a higher rate than has ever been seen before; this has created changing conditions (increased temperatures, ocean acidification, shifts in climate) that have made evolving extremely difficult for organisms. Today we are in the sixth animal extinction and, if we do not make rash changes in human habits, we threaten the future of the entire planet. That being said, currently ecofriendly cars do have many flaws—such as small lifespan, requiring constant charging, and often running off of fossil fuel based power. However, to dismiss this technology as irrelevant would be to digress on all the technological improvements toward sustainability. While gas-powered cars do continue stimulating the economy, electric cars could possibly do the same thing in upcoming years as the human population shifts from fossil fuels. While I understand what the original author is say ing, ultimately if the energy being utilized in electric cars is renewable the shift toward electric cars would cause nothing but beneficial environmental impacts.





