Group Goal 11 GP Script

Hey guys, sustainable goal 11 here brings you another dashing lucious topic!
today guys we will be talking about our claim today! Building sustainable urban
communities is vital to avoid human, social and economic catastrophes. A few topics
we will go over are Affordable and sustainable transport! Safe and affordable
housing ! And reduction of natural disasters! So let's stop f-f-f-f-faffing around and
get straight into the centre of today's tootsie pop!

Affordable and sustainable transport can reduce carbon emissions.

Sustainable transportation refers to low and zero emission and energy efficient.
Public transportation can be a type of affordable and sustainable transport.
According to IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development) Transport is
at the centre of many economic and social development challenges, accounting for
about 64% of global oil consumption, 27% of all energy use, and 23% of the world’s
energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Each year, almost 185,000 deaths can
be directly attributed to vehicular pollution. With the use of public transport, it
can carry people far more efficiently than cars and reduce individual carbon
footprints.
Increasing access to affordable housing bolsters economic growth. Research shows
that the shortage of affordable housing costs the American economy about $2 trillion a year
in lower wages and productivity. families have constrained opportunities to increase
earnings, causing slower GDP growth. In fact, researchers estimate that the growth
in GDP between 1964 and 2009 would have been 13.5% higher if families had better
access to affordable housing. This would have led to a $1.7 trillion increase in
income or $8,775 in additional wages per worker, so to put it simply, affordable
housing bolsters economic growth which in turn massively helps with the growth and
building of urban communities. Improved living conditions People living in slums
often have to endure overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions, which can
contribute to poor health outcomes. Providing safe and affordable housing can help
improve their living conditions and reduce the risk of disease which leads to a more
stable urban area.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes and reaffirms the
urgent need to reduce the risk of disaster. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is an integral
part of social and economic development, and is essential if development is to be
sustainable for the future. According to the United Nations Department of economic
and Social Affairs, by reducing exposure and vulnerability of the poor to disasters or
building resilient infrastructure contribute to reducing disaster risks and building
resilience, even where disaster risk reduction is not explicit.

Now, I’ll tell you how to reduce our damage to the environment. According to
WWF Armenia Green Living Tips, we can reduce our damage to the environment
while in our home by Completely turning off equipment like televisions and stereos
when you're not using them, Choose energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs,
Don’t use “throw away” products like paper plates and napkins, or plastic knives,
forks and cups and Lower your shades or close your curtains on hot days, to keep
the house cool and reduce the use of electric fans or air-conditioning. In your garden
you can plant more trees to reduce the amount of CO2 in the air. While shopping you
can Buy fruit and vegetables that are in season to help reduce enormous transport
costs resulting from importing produce and, where possible, choose locally produced
food. At school you also can help reduce damage to the environment by switching off
computer monitors, printers and other equipment when you're not using them.
Though in standby mode they're still using power - and that adds to global warming.
Always turn off your classroom light and computer monitor when you go out for
lunch.

Getting straight to the point, in urban areas/cities that have generally high
levels of crimes like theft, murder, etc. We can all make urban communities safer by
making funds for a voluntary security department or enforcing more police officers in
a certain area of the cities with particularly high rates of crime or reports of crime.
This fund can be donated by the common population of cities to give to their local
police authority to support officers and civilian personnel. The enforcement of citizen
volunteers as volunteer police forces such as civilian services like the Volunteers in
Police Service (VIPS) can help citizens who volunteered for service gain experience
from the police’s perspective along with work experience and why they do some
things. In doing so, these volunteers protect their community and reduce crime rate
in the part of the city. They can also make job opportunities for students or
unemployed people who joined the service, decreasing unemployment in the urban
areas.This can lead to the government funding the police department more as more
volunteers come in and decide to switch to the police career. Services like the
Neighbourhood Watch in the USA can help VIPS and the ordinary police to counter
theft and crime in the local neighbourhoods and build trust amongst the people.
Services such as the police Cadets/Explorers for kids can build trust in children and
cops, making collaboration easier and ratting out criminals would be easier for cops.
This can make a child also have a sound sense of behaviour and sensibility. Citizens
in the urban areas volunteering for volunteer services can get a free uniform, firearm,
equipment and bestowment of responsibility over the population. You can volunteer
for Neighbourhood Watch in the UK, the VIPS in the USA, and other volunteer
security services at any police department in their respective country. Malaysia’s
volunteer security service is called the Police Volunteer Reserve (PVR) and any
citizen can volunteer through the PVR website through Sistem Semakan Online
(SSO) and volunteers can get almost the same elements and duties of a full-time
police officer, being given a firearm and uniform along with all duties of a common
law enforcer. Citizen volunteers can get free professional training or academy
training for police authority. Citizens may even get to receive small wages on the
side or even compensation for injuries while on duty and could get merit or awards
from the police if an honourable act is done for greater good. Recommendations can
be made into resumes of volunteers after service time they signed up for for future
profession or work. Well, take for example the Neighbourhood Watch: out of every
100 crimes happening in cities in the UK, about 47 of them were prevented by this
volunteer service according to one study. The USA’s VIPS is an ongoing piece of
work, but for now, it has managed about more than 30% crime prevention in cities,
small, but yes, they do the job. and the police Explorers/Cadets for kids have
prevented hundreds of crimes of all types in cities in the USA alone. This is one of
the solutions we can implement to avoid human, social and economic catastrophes.

88% of the ocean’s surface area is covered by plastic, and this has a heavy
toll on our wildlife as about 1,000 sea turtles die annually from digesting plastic
(Ocean Blue Project, 2023) which can affect biodiversity and the food chain. Not only
are marine animals affected by the plastic in the ocean but birds as well, it’s
estimated that 60 percent of all seabird species have eaten pieces of plastic, with
that number predicted to increase to 99 percent by 2050.(Ocean Plastics Project,
2023) Drains clogged with rubbish could cause floods leading to hundreds of dollars
of damage. Governments around the world could introduce laws that slowly
introduce reusable bags or bioplastic bags and get rid of those nasty plastic bags.
This could happen over the course of 2 to 10 years, of course the shorter period of
time the better but it may take some time for the public to adjust to the law. Not only
would the introduction of this law benefit us it would also benefit the environment.

Introducing agriculture, healthy diets in condominiums and housing areas can

create a more sustainable lifestyle. The issue is people are not growing their own
food. The cause is that the government won’t fund or promote Agriculture which
leads to people relying on store bought products that might not be healthy. The
consequences of lack of agriculture is loss of jobs, lack of organic food and lack of
food. Agriculture, like hydroponics, aquaponics and soil grown plants, can provide a
constant supply of vegetables and fruits without buying from stores. Growing your
own plants is healthier because you can organically grow it which is healthier than
buying from stores that might use pesticides or other chemicals. Hydroponics or
Aquaponics makes agriculture easier because it’s more efficient, easy maintenance
and constant supply of fruits and vegetables. According to the United Nations, Food
is at the core of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN's development
agenda for the 21st century. The second of the UN's 17 SDGs is to "End hunger,
achieve food security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture."
Achieving this goal by the target date of 2030 will require a profound change of the
global food and agriculture system. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
recognizes and reaffirms the urgent need to reduce the risk of disaster. Disaster risk
reduction (DRR) is an integral part of social and economic development, and is
essential if development is to be sustainable for the future. According to the United
Nations Department of economic and Social Affairs, by reducing exposure and
vulnerability of the poor to disasters or building resilient infrastructure contribute to
reducing disaster risks and building resilience, even where disaster risk reduction is
not explicit.

In conclusion, we must build sustainable urban communities to avoid human,

social and economical catastrophes because if they weren't sustainable they would
eventually be at a shortest of resources and would pollute the earth, that's why we
must try our best to follow all the things we have talked about today like using public
transports to reduce carbon emissions, build safe and affordable houses for people
who live in slums to improve their quality of life and we can also introduce
sustainable farming like hydroponics to prevent the world from being destroyed.

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