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In all seriousness, climate change is the world’s most critical environmental issue happening right now. In the near future, all businesses are going to need to be inherently sustainable one way or another. We are already at a stage in our consumption where we are facing irreversible environmental consequences because of how companies across the world have been exploiting the Earth’s resources and its people for profit.
Experts believe that we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. Agricultural systems are collapsing. Cities are rationing water, land has been disappearing, and people are being displaced and dying. Many species have been going extinct at rates ten times higher than baseline rates.
Currently, only 1.25 billion of the 7.4 billion people on Earth are high energy users. However, within the next 30 years, we can expect a population of over 9 billion people, with a third of them engaging in a lifestyle of high energy consumption. In order to solve these global risks, wide-scale recourse through international environmental regulations and sustainable business practices are going to be needed.
I am proud to be a part of the generation that is fighting for making this world a better place. Who knows, with these “unprecedented times”, maybe you will become the President one day...