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.

Boko Haram attacks Key Nigerian City of Maiduguri

Boko Haram

• Founded in 2002
• Initially focused on opposing Western-style education - Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language
• Launched military operations in 2009 to create Islamic state
  
  
  
• Killed thousands of people, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria  
• Attacked police and UN headquarters in capital, Abuja
• Has abducted hundreds, including at least 200 schoolgirls
• Controls several north-eastern towns
• Has launched attacks on Cameroon
  News
  Boko Haram has attacked Maiduguri, a strategically important north-eastern city of Nigeria on January 25, 2015. Its last attack on Maiduguri was on December 2013. Fierce fighting and gunshots have been reported on the borders of Maiduguri. The city is under curfew and several militants and officials have been killed as a result of the conflicts.
  With elections coming up in the February, John Kerry, the US Secretary of state, has visited Nigeria for the second time urging for all parties to a peaceful election. The main reason of John Kerry’s reason of visiting Nigeria is to “show solidarity in the fight against Boko Haram, which has increased its attacks in recent days.”
  
  
  The BBC's Will Ross in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos:
  
  
  People in Maiduguri woke up to the sound of explosions and heavy gunfire as Boko Haram launched a pre-dawn attack on this strategic city. Ground troops, air strikes and local vigilantes managed to stop the jihadists from penetrating the city. Much of the fighting was around a barracks. In a separate attack the town of Monguno was captured - the latest to be seized by the group. With the insurgents gaining more and more territory Maiduguri is increasingly vulnerable. It is home to tens of thousands of people who have fled their homes because of the conflict.
  
  

  
  

  
  

  -Jeen&Hans