Author: Edward Cowley
Climate Change: London to Face Severe Water Shortages
Use Less Water As well as increasing the supply of fresh water, the only way to ensure there is enough water to go around for everyone is to dramatically decrease consumption. “We won’t have long-term water security unless all of us change our behaviour,” the chief executive of the UK Environment Agency, James Bevan, said […]
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Dominica: The First Climate Resilient Nation on Earth
Climate Change: Increasing Storm Severity As well as being situated in the middle of the hurricane belt, the Caribbean is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change because of rising sea temperatures in the region. A rise in sea temperatures leads to an increase in major storms. On a visit to Dominica just after […]
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No Poverty, Zero Hunger: How Realistic Are the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
The Hunger Project, an NGO which fights to end world hunger, explained to Belong in an exclusive interview what steps need to be taken to eradicate world hunger. Why Are People Hungry and Where do They Live? Coonrod explained that in the corridors of the UN the term hunger does not necessarily mean that someone […]
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Extinction Rebellion: ‘The World’s First Peaceful Revolution’
What Are Their Demands? Extinction Rebellion has three main demands, which appear extreme but are in line with warnings from scientists and the IPCC. Firstly, they want the government to tell the truth about the environmental crisis the world is facing and declare a climate emergency. Secondly, they demand that the UK implement legally binding […]
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UK Farmers: Abandon Ploughs to Save the Soil
A Third of the Earth’s Land Severely Degraded Two major reports backed by the UN and released in 2017 and 2018 found that 24 billion tonnes of soil is being lost every year through intensive farming and that this has already affected 3.2 billion people. The extensive use of agrochemicals, heavy tilling, multiple harvests and […]
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