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 >
Carbon Footprint
Viewing my estimated carbon footprint floored me. I entered my data for what my lifestyle was like before COVID-19, and the amount of Carbon emissions I used to contribute through transportation alone on my daily commute to and from school was shocking. Over quarantine, however, I have begun to walk and bike everywhere, which likely has severely lessened my carbon footprint on that front. Since I am now used to those forms of transport, I will seek to continue those carbon-efficient practices into the post-COVID future.
Additionally, I noticed just how much of an impact my meat-eating has on my carbon footprint. The extent to which my decisions to eat pork and beef spiked my carbon emissions have caused me to consider going vegan seriously. Seeing just what I contribute to something like global warming through wastefulness really inspired me to pursue more efficient practices. I believe that practices of carbon-efficient transportation (when possible), as well as vegetarianism or veganism, really could serve to benefit humanity if they were widely adopted under a general species-wide goal of sustainability.