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 >
Agriculture
The methods we use for farming worldwide is causing mass erosion of soil. It is also polluting our rivers and lakes, as well as causing "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico. Some solutions to this is to use less fertilizers or perhaps switch to more sustainable methods of farming, such as no till.
I completely agree. We could also decrease water usage and pollution by using more efficient irrigation tactics like drip irrigation.