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
Clean development is not just one thing. Some people may think that it's the shaping the future, and some people may think its cleaning up our past mistakes, but actually it's both. To move forward, while cleaning up and learning from our pasts. On Earth humans have made many mistakes, and if we do not fix these it will be very difficult to move forward. This would include finding a way to stop relying on fossil fuels and switching to clean and sustainable energy. Unfortunately some things we have gone so far that for a few generations we(the human population) will have to spend our time fixing the mistakes that we made in the past.
I like how you mentioned that it is both creating a future and cleaning up our past mistakes. We should spread information about all the consequences and solutions to global warming will have. Just recently did I start learning in-depth things such as ocean acidification, rising sea levels, etc. Although I am very grateful for having a chance to learn about these things now, it would have been better if I had started learning these things at a younger age. I think all schools should have lessons regarding global warming and climate change. With this information I am sure some students will make small changes to their lifestyle, making a big difference altogether.