Fifty Shades of Blue

Fifty Shade of Blue What is the most important thing in you life? I’ll tell ya, it is not your girl friend, not your boyfriend, or even your family and friend, or even the erotic movie “ Fifty Shade of Gray”. Lacking these things will not kill you! Repeat, lacking these will not kill you. The things that are fundamental to life and will kill you if you don’t have them are: oxygen you breath in every single second, water you drink every single day, and food you eat every single day. As my heading foreshadow, I will be discussing water in this blog. There are 7 billions people in the world, but 1 billion don’t have access to clean water. 1 out of 7 people do not have clean water to drink from. 1 burger = 6 gallons of water. 70% of water sources are for agriculture. Each day there are 4500 kid, who died because of water related disease. Water related disease have killed more people than any war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgLT4y7nFhAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgLT4y7nFhA People think of water as limitless, but the dark truth is that it is not. We are using water like it will never run out. What we need to think is that there is only 3 percent of the world’s water is freshwater which we need to share with 7 billion more people who live on the same earth. One perfect way we could do to save water is by consuming less meat. As you know, most water is wasted for raising animals and agricultural use. Change from a burgers to salads, and you would save more than 5 gallons of water, and get much healthier in the process. Humans have brains to think, so think.

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