LOVE IS IN THE AIR

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

To humans, the most crucial thing we need in order to survive is oxygen, the air we breath. Can you live a day without food? Can you live a day without water? Can you live a day without air? I hope not, because it is just impossible. In this world, there are tons and tons of global issues; things we cause, and things we need to solve. One question I always have is which one is the vital one. Is it Human rights? Is it Feminism? Once I made up my mind, I know that what we need to save first are the trees, because if we don’t, then we cannot live. I think we should all work together into solving one problem; otherwise, nothing will be solved.

In each year, a forest as big as Panama are being torn down. In each year, a tree as old as all your ancestors ages added up are being cut, and burned, and made so that you could use it once and throw it away carelessly. And in the next 25 years, 28,000 species might be gone, some of which you have never seen before. Forests are like our lungs; they absorb carbon and release oxygen which is the most abundant compound for lives. It is plain - trees are important, we destroy trees, trees are what we need save, and trees are the ones that save our life.

Common Causes of Deforestation

1. Land for housing and urbanization
2. Harvesting timber for paper and tissue
3. Plantations for cash crops
4. Land use for ranching

Interesting Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRLJscAlk1M

Solving deforestation is really easy. One is to stop cutting down trees, two is to plant trees, and three is to “JUST DO IT.” Forests are like lungs of our world, and by constantly destroying them are like destroying ourselves.  We all have power,  If only the power of our two hands and two feet are use to build rather than destroy and used for caring rather than destroying. I really want to know what our world would be like in the future where greed is less important to us than good.

U.N. Wants to End Poverty, Hunger by 2030

The United Nations had wanted to reduce global poverty and inequality by 2015. Even though, it had cut extreme poverty in half, they are not so sure about developing country such as sub-Saharan Africa could improve by 2030.  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wants to end extreme poverty by 2030 because the economy has grown better than before. They have set 8 goals that needed to be improve by 2015, but on December Ban decided to change them to 17 new goals to encourage sustainable development, which includes: reducing preventable deaths, ending starvation, and ending gender inequality. In his report, he stated, “With our globalized economy and sophisticated technology, we can decide to end the age-old ills of extreme poverty and hunger, Or we can continue to degrade our planet and allow intolerable inequalities to sow bitterness and despair.” Percentage of people who couldn’t feed themselves decreased from 23.6 during 1990 to 1992 to 14.3 in 2011 to 2013. If in 2015 shows that rate of progress is steady enough, it would be 1 percent improvement of the poverty reduction. In developing nations, about 842 million people suffered from chronic hunger in 2011 and 2013, but the hunger has declined in Africa according to the international food policy research institute, which means that they  could maybe eliminates starvation in 2030. Eliminating preventable deaths were harder than starvation. The U.N. couldn’t stop child death, which could also a sign of economic failure to meet its goal. Immunization against disease such as measles have contributed children to become healthier and also reduce the death of children under age of 5 from 12.6 million in 1990 to 6.6 million by 2012. However, this was not enough to meet the goal in 2015. In 2014, U.N. stated that “Regions such as Oceania, sub-Saharan Africa, Caucasus and Central Asia, and Southern Asia still fall short of the 2015 target, it will take until 2028 to reach [the child mortality reduction] globally at the current rate.”

sources: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/12/31/un-wants-to-end-poverty-hunger-by-2030