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 >
CARS
I'm all for clean energy, and I want to build a sustainable future. But I have very mixed opinions about electric cars. I feel that electric cars are a good idea and it's a step in the right direction, but personally I think that people are spending SO much money to buy a Tesla, and driving it whenever they could when in my opinion, the focus should be on reducing the amount you consume. Considering the amount of resources put into the amount of cars being made we should not think that this is the best option. This is a better alternative to cars that use gas, but this is not the solution. Currently, walking is the best solution.
I agree, electric cars currently have one, glaring flaw. Most of our Electricity is made with fossil fuels. I feel that electric cars could be a good future but they are held back by current limitations such as the short amount of time they have been researched compared to gasoline cars and non-renewable energy.