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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Transportation
Since the invention of the first automobile in 1886 and its' rapid marketization, the United States had gained the nickname "The country on wheels", which meant that the common man was buying an automobile for him or herself. Having at least 1 car per family with typically having only one person in them has been a large contributor to the addition of CO2 in our atmosphere. This could be circumvented by encouraging carpooling, public transport, and electric vehicles. Electric Vehicles can come a long way in terms of prevention of the release of CO2 in the atmosphere, and we should push to make them cheaper and easier to maintain.