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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How Humans Can Help Decrease Pollution
Ever since the Industrial Revolution occurred in the 18th century, humans have used technology that gets more advanced as the years go by, and make life more simple, and entertaining. The burning of fossil fuels is what humans do to produce electricity and energy, fuel vehicles, heat our homes, and pretty much everything. Humans have been very reliant on these fossil fuels for centuries, but never look at the consequences. With the burning of fossil fuels come pollution, climate change, and global warming, which are not a healthy factors for anything on this planet. The burning of fossil fuels is also the number one cause of global warming. We as a society cannot stop global warming from happening, but we can’t reduce it.
Reducing the burning of fossil fuels will help benefit everything on Earth. One way people can do to be more eco-friendly is buying products for your home that are more energy efficient, and simply turn off every appliance and technology when it is not needed. If people get these products that use less energy, than that’s less fossil fuels that po wer plants have to burn. Also, turning off technology instead of leaving it in standby mode will also cut down on energy consumption. These simple and easy things that everyone can do make a big difference, especially in the environment.
Another way to help reduce the burning of fossil fuels is to cut back on using cars, trains, boats, and planes. The amount of cars in the world is over 1 billion. That means that 1/7th of the world’s human population owns a car. The amount of fossil fuels that are burnt to fuel those cars and manufacture them is mind blowing. Most people in the U.S. own a car, in which they use to drive to different cities/states. If people cut back on car usage and transportation in general, then the ecosystem would be much healthier. Sure, we can’t completely abolish the burning of fossil fuels, but we can make a difference. It all starts with you.
West Environmental Issues Expert, Larry. "10 Things You Can Do to Slow Climate Change." About.com News & Issues. N.p., 1 Sept. 2016. Web. 29 Sept. 2016.