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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Pollution Fighter
The best way to prevent further emissions of CO2 into our atmosphere is to use clean, reusable energy sources. If you stop using energy sources like coal, gas, and oil, it cuts down CO2 emissions by a huge amount. To replace these energy sources, you can use clean energy sources like wind, water, and solar. While these energy sources are more expensive than fossil fuel powered energy sources, in the long run it will have a huge positive impact on the world. It will reduce global warming by a huge amount and slow down an eventual disaster. To even further reduce pollution, car manufacturers would only manufacture electric cars. All of these steps would lead to a cleaner and longer future.
I agree with most of your points, however we have to address the problem that electric cars are not able to travel far distances without needing a recharge. The bill it will cost to install charging stations throughout America would be an insane amount.
Most of these would lower the carbon footprint by a lot but,it could be quite expensive. Like if there was only electric cars 1. It would be a crazy amount of money to replace gas stations with charging stations. 2. many people that can't afford to buy a new car wouldn't have fast transportation. There would also be a problem with pricing your "charge".