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.
Clean Development >
Water Pollution
Water pollution is one of the famous and one of the largest problems in our world. People in Africa cannot drink clean water; their children die because a big part of our water has been polluted. Children in Kenya often have to go many kilometers to collect drinking water. At all over 2 million people don't have clean water. And we do not know how it will be in future.
But the pollute water killed animals and plants too. There is no ocean or sea, which is not used as a dump. Many seas are used for dumping industrial and nuclear waste.
Many rivers and lakes are poisoned too. Fish and reptiles cannot live in them. There is not enough oxygen in the water. In such places all the birds leave their habitats and many plants die. If people drink this water they can die too. It happens so because factories produce a lot of waste and pour it into rivers. So they poison water.
But we MUST keep our planet and water of our planet clean. If we want to live, we should guard our clean water and do not pollute them because we could live without food about a month but without water we could die in 4-5 days. Let's keep our water clean!
I agree water pollution is a big problem. Millions of people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water and hundreds of thousands of children die each year because of that. We are lucky to have the privilege of living in a country that has the ability to provide with clean water sources. What is the point of having clean water sources if we keep polluting it them with trash and toxic waste. Think of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. They were switching to a new water source to save money but that water source has been polluted with toxic waste from the car companies that used to be there. The city politicians said that the water was safe for them to drink but they now have led poisoning because of what the people working at the companies did. We do not want anything like that to happen in our water sources so we must stop polluting the water in order for us to live.
Water pollution is an increasing and very severe problem in our world today, people in Flint Michigan haven't had clean drinking water since 2014. This is a huge and detrimental issue going on in our own country, as well as other countries that continuously have no clean drinking water due to contamination .
I agree that water pollution is one of the largest problems in our world today, especially the water crisis that is happening in Flint, Michigan. Last year, I went to a lecture at my school given by Khalid Kadir, a professor at UC Berkeley. We discussed the issue of the lead and paint being in the pipes in Flint, and we discussed possible solutions to this issue. All of the solutions we could think of, including ideas such as new pipes and new filters, kept coming back to the same major issue, which was money. Flint is a city faced with economic problems and the people living there have little representation within their government. Flint is not the only city facing issues with water pollution, or other climate issues. The people and places most effected by these climate issues are communities that live in poverty, which are most often made up of people of color. This idea can also relate to the people in Africa, who are people of color living in poverty, that do not have clean water to drink.