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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Environmental Propaganda
After being in an environmental science class I finally learned just how twisted the environmental narrative that's fed to society is. Why is it that the government engraves in the general populous to make changes like taking shorter showers or carpooling, when we could reduce emissions significantly by holding corporations and agricultural industries accountable (who account for the majority of emissions)? If you want to be environmentally friendly you should practice ethical habits like recycling, buying food from sustainable farms, and trying to drive only when necessary, and that's great, but we are not the problem. That being said, we have the power to change the way of thinking and help encourage our governments to fix the problem.
I've recently been thinking about this too, how the media or news portrays in order to make a difference in saving the plant we need to take shorter showers or turn on the lights every time you leave a room. While this is all true, these changes made are not comparable with the impact industries and corporation would have if they became more environmentally friendly. My guess as to why this is happening, is either simplicity or money. Over all I think the government found it easier to tell people to reduce their plastic use rather then educating them on non sustainable agricultural practices. This saves them time and can make them even more money, by turning it into merchandise.
I agree that reducing fossil fuels would be done much more efficiently if the government encouraged big businesses to use renewable energy sources and more environmentally beneficial ways of production, but I do think that it is important that we each do our part in small ecofriendly tasks like shorter showers and carpooling. Even though, they might not have a large impact on improving the health of our planet, they do help and keep people thinking about the environment. But yes, we definitely should focus on getting the government to create change and new policies, in terms of larger industries, as that would significantly help the environment.