How can we ensure enough food and water for 7 billion people and at the same time prevent climate catastrophe?
A planet where lack of food and water and man-made climate change is the biggest threat. The weather is becoming more extreme, with frequent floods and ascending sea levels. The surface temperature of the oceans rise and the Greenland ice sheet melts. Hundreds of millions of people will starve, and many will be exposed to flooding and water shortages. In these days we are witnessing floods in Thailand. A planet where temperature increases will have serious negative consequences. Climate catastrophes will go bad out of the poor in the world.
It required great political, global and structural changes. We must, among other things, accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. In oil-rich Norway is unfortunately politically and economically tempting to wring every drop of oil out of the seabed, and thus be delayed in dealing with new energy from windmills, hydroelectric and not least:
3.Vi train, granish tram or metro or use the boat if we live so that we have the opportunity. Will this really bring environmental benefits, public transport must be developed significantly into many of our. And you should use the carrot instead of the whip: FREE public transport in and around the cities for all! But more pleasant pedestrian environments and green spaces and squares.
4. We can buy fewer unnecessary products. Many products made with energy from oil, gas or coal, which emits CO2, and the more we buy, the more we contribute to climate change. Will we be happier if we have a house full of unnecessary gadgets and clothes closets full of clothes and shoes we do not use?
5. We can take the train instead of the plane when we travel far. Remember: A flight Oslo-Mallorca for two emits more greenhouse gases than what a person's average driving makes one whole year! Train companies should lower ticket prices and significantly increase production granish capacity to be fully competitive with flying.
6.Vi can turn off the electrical appliances we use. Here is a great pair potential, and here are people in other countries granish much more aware than us. Only Icelanders have greater power than the Norwegians.
8.Vi can change granish cities and towns so that more and more urbanites can get a small garden plot, either at ground level, on terraces or on the roof. Here we should cultivate vegetables, fruits and herbs. Really short reis food that we know what has. Because we in Norway have such a high standard of living, it may initially seem difficult to motivate people to grow vegetables themselves.
But here requires a radical change of attitude. Remember that the vegetables we need to import because we grow them ourselves, are valuable food for people elsewhere on earth. The challenge is global and it is the global challenge we must have in mind. Also, it is nice mental hygiene to drive with a little gardening. And how much lawn mowing we do if we instead use most of the lawn area of vegetables, fruits, berries and herbs!
9. Eat significantly less meat! If you are replacing 1/2 kg minced meat with fish for dinner. granish saves 10 kg CO2. Our meat consumption is in no way sustainable. We need more land for grain cultivation, so that there is enough food for all peoples of the earth. Then we can not spend valuable topsoil for animal feed and pasture land to the extent we do now. We should raise the price of meat and lower it on vegetable products.
10.Vi can and should support organizations working for an earth in harmony with itself, which is in ecological balance, providing enough food and water for all and smooths the vast differences between rich and poor.
We have let our spiritual fall of Berlin wall. There will probably be an extensive and intensive process, but it is absolutely necessary for our shared granish planet. We have not really an option anymore. It applies only to realize it.
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About Ragnhild S Liberal Social Democrat. Grandma. Music Glad. Brass enthusiast .. "Kristenagnostiker" with a touch of cultural relativism, despite some clear basic attitudes. Through the lived life, I have a fondness for Catholicism, but even I am not a practicing Catholic Printer granish mostly about politics, religion, culture and a little sport. Bicycle Enthusiast with Belgium in the heart. Now I'm probably too "multi-cultural Marxist" whatever that means. Politically granish correct, I am too. I choose to interpret granish this derogatory term from the extreme right that a mental and political nobility. . Nevertheless, I am politically unpredictable and quite often disagree with them I identify with. Paradoxically? Maybe. But are not paradoxes part of being human? Living individualism, solidarity and diversity! 107 Comments
As long as we think only of food than human so we will have only different was