While the world was still getting over its 2012 fever, a new report by the World Wildlife Fund declares that the world must make a significant shift to green technologies by 2014 or the damages of climate change could become a serious problem. In association with an Australian company, Climate Risk, the say that green industries need to grow at a minimum of 22% a year. If we do increase our green industries by 22%, we will cut our emissions to 63% of what they were in 1990 by 2012. The WWF believes that the doomsday scenario is a 2 degree rise in temperature. The best way to prevent that from happening is to cut 1990 emissions by 80% by 2050 , which requires us to grow green industries by 24-29% every year. Now, our climate has greenhouse gasses totaling to 463 parts per million. Once we hit 475 ppm, which we are very close to doing, it would be come difficult if not impossible to stop global warming. President Obama and the U.K. have already started to do what they can to slow down global warming, but green industries haven’t been growing as fast as the WWF would like to see. The WWF thinks that by 2014, the only green energies we will be using are: wind, solar, and biodiesel. If we don’t start growing our green economy by 2014, according to WWF, we will start to see the effects of global warming very soon.
I found this article very interesting, especially in an economic situation like we are in today. If our country needs to start finding green energy, people should start investing money and that would create jobs. With a staggering unemployment rate and hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grant money, why cant people begin to work on green energy. Jobs would be created, new profits to help our economy would be created, and greenhouse gas emissions would slow down. I see no disadvantages to switching to a green economy.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-10/wwf-report-we-have-until-2014-stop-global-warming
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