What the World Needs Now is Cooperation

By Jake Roach, Lindale High School

The old song, “What the World Needs Now is Love”, can be changed, just a little, to “What the World Needs Now is Cooperation”.  Two of the major problems surrounding our world would be both poverty and climate change.  Most people would not think of these to problems coinciding with one another, but we know they relate to one another, and that the United Nations is trying to slow both down at the same time.

Global Warming: Outcome of Ignorance, Input for Poverty

By Savannah Williamson, Lindale High School

While interviewing the students and teachers around me on poverty and climate change, I was troubled to find just how few people truly knew about the connection between the two. I was even more concerned by the lack of education on the incentives to combat both. After a brief talk with my chemistry teacher, who was sadly one of the only people who was able to provide answers to my questions, and some research of my own, I found that the strongest connection between poverty and climate change is the effect temperatures have on the production of food.

For Developing Countries, Why is a Comprehensive Climate Treaty in Copenhagen Necessary?

By Brittany Cox, Rachel Hickling & Ashley Johnson
Calvary Baptist Day School, USA

While not completely effective to date, the Kyoto Protocol, through the requirement that countries reduce carbon emissions to 6% below their 1990 levels, has served to aid global climate change.  However, this protocol runs out soon.

Raffi's Global Cooling song

 Check out Raffi's song about climate change!

Food Security and Climate Change

By William Saab

Food and poverty are closely related. 75% of the poorest people in the world live in rural areas and rely on agriculture for their livelihoods; however, agriculture in these areas is very difficult—often the soil is poor and there isn’t enough water resulting in low yields.

Poverty and Climate Change

The face of poverty is changing. More accurately, it’s expanding.
Poverty no longer means simply the lack of industry or financial growth. We now live in a world where developing nations not only get hit the hardest by the effects of climate change, but where they are also forced to make the gut-wrenching decision between environmental sustainability or economic survival.