Dafina Gercheva: How to help limit climate change

New inequalities are being triggered by technology and climate change, and they are increasingly determining people’s opportunities in the 21st century. These two seismic shifts, if left without a response, could undermine democracy and jeopardize sustainable development by increasing inequalities in society.

We’re only just realizing the pitfalls of our rapidly changing information technology, from privacy issues, to disinformation spreading across the internet. Climate change, however, has long been on the horizon. We know some of its problems, but we also know some solutions for them.

Climate change does not respect borders and affects every living creature on earth. It’s easy for individuals to feel overwhelmed at the sheer scale of this phenomenon: We must have all asked ourselves at one point how our own actions – the actions of just one person – could possibly make any difference.