The document discusses several major environmental problems: food waste which could feed 3 billion people, deforestation which could eliminate all forests in less than 100 years if not stopped, plastic pollution with 91% of all plastic not recycled, air pollution killing millions each year, and poor governance failing to address greenhouse gas emissions through policies like carbon taxes. Solutions proposed include afforestation to plant more trees, reducing waste by reusing and recycling plastics and food, and governments increasing funding for green innovation while adopting policies to cut emissions and address market failures.
The document discusses several major environmental problems: food waste which could feed 3 billion people, deforestation which could eliminate all forests in less than 100 years if not stopped, plastic pollution with 91% of all plastic not recycled, air pollution killing millions each year, and poor governance failing to address greenhouse gas emissions through policies like carbon taxes. Solutions proposed include afforestation to plant more trees, reducing waste by reusing and recycling plastics and food, and governments increasing funding for green innovation while adopting policies to cut emissions and address market failures.
The document discusses several major environmental problems: food waste which could feed 3 billion people, deforestation which could eliminate all forests in less than 100 years if not stopped, plastic pollution with 91% of all plastic not recycled, air pollution killing millions each year, and poor governance failing to address greenhouse gas emissions through policies like carbon taxes. Solutions proposed include afforestation to plant more trees, reducing waste by reusing and recycling plastics and food, and governments increasing funding for green innovation while adopting policies to cut emissions and address market failures.
Food Waste Deforestation Plastic Pollution Poor Governance Air Pollution
A third of the food Every minute, forests the 91% of all plastic that has Environmentalists have 4.2 to 7 million people intended for human size of 20 football ever been made is not urged policymakers for die from air pollution consumption- around 1.3 fields are cut down. By recycled, years to increase the price worldwide every year and billion tons- is wasted. the year 2030, the planet representing one of the of activities that emit that nine out of 10 people This is enough to feed 3 might have only 10% of its biggest environmental greenhouse gases, the breathe air that contains billion people. Food waste forests; if deforestation problems of our lack of which constitutes high levels of pollutants. and loss accounts for 4.4 isn’t stopped, they could lifetime. plastic takes 400 the largest market failure, gigatons of greenhouse all be gone in less than years to decompose for example through gas emissions annually 100 years. carbon taxes, which will Be The Solution 1 stimulate innovations in low-carbon technologies. Some Possible Solutions
Afforestation Reduce, Reuse, Air pollution and
Recycle governance We should plant trees and Reduce plastics in your To cut emissions quickly plants in large scale. daily lives, reuse plastic and effectively enough, government should take containers, recycle food governments must not measures for waste into compost, say only massively increase afforestation. Greenhouse no to single use plastics, funding for green gas emissions should be don't waste food. innovation to bring down controlled to reduce the costs of low-carbon global warming for the energy sources, but they prevention of forest fires also need to adopt a and ice caps melting range of other policies 2 that address each of the Be The solution other market failures.