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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Wind and Solar Power Combined
Wind power and Solar power have always been separated and used almost as competition against each other; When its sunny you use solar power, and when its cold and windy, you use wind power. I believe that we can combine them together to make a product that helps create cleaner air and better energy sources. I would like to build a windmill out of solar panels. Although it might sound absurd, imagine a long base that is covered in solar panels and the propellors around the top also covered in solar panels. If the day was windy and not sunny, it sound still power your house and if the day was beautiful and sunny with no wind there would still be power. This could be the beginning of a new type of energy source... Solar Wind power.