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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Clean development: We need it
There are a lot of alternatives to fossil fuels, oil, and gas as a power source. Solar power, collecting the sun's rays, which can be collected by solar panels and glass. Wind power, using wind turbines to use the wind's energy. Wave power, using the waves from oceans, seas, and lakes. Many different options.
One big problem with clean development is that it is treated as a luxury, as in "only people who are rich can use this" when in fact it can be used anywhere in the world. And new ways of collecting power are being created each day.
Another thing that we might be able to control, but not likely, is population. Humans breathe out CO2 all the time, and for every person that dies, ten more people are born, so we are very overpopulated. I'm not saying we should kill a whole bunch of people, because that would be horrible, and the world is horrible enough already. The main cause of this is poverty, so maybe the big companies should pay more than minimum wage to their workers and stop exploiting people, but I don't think these companies are going to change anytime soon.