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Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
There’s only one thing about cancer, when it is discovered, the situation or the cancer cells are already grown and occupied unthinkable space in the body. The same with global warming or climate change. We can’t deny that the effects now are being felt world wide.
Though it has been announced before when the situation is still not as chronic as today. It looks like nobody can reverse the situation anymore. Today, almost all or maybe all the people around the globe knew already the situation - the earth is suffering from cancer.
Cancer maybe avoided if the are people like Steven Chang who has the edge of informing people about this disease. Mr Chang and his website about cancer treatment has, in any way, contribute something to avoid and/or treat cancer. If you are also in this cancer awareness campaign, maybe you would like to donate some support to make this informative website reach it potential.
I would like also to suggest you do the same with sites about global warming or climate change. Information drive really helps a lot. Earth’s cancer is spreading in a fast pace and such websites should reach all the people. Who knows, maybe that website is only what we are waiting for. No other person who will benefit from this, but us.
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
  
The logos are just an example of the these big sites showing support to Earth Day. I’ve been regularly monitoring events about global warming. I started doing it along time ago. In fact, I have submitted articles about it at Ezinearticles.com around 2005, if I’m not mistaken.
Even before, scientists had announced global warming as time bomb and nobody knew when will this bomb explode. Don’t be alarmed, it will not explode tomorrow, but maybe next week or next month or next year. Who knows?
The recent phenomenal events about food shortage, drought, melting of ice, floods and others had triggered a much greater number of individuals who are now aware of this global phenomenon.
The recent energy saving event where there are cities of different countries who participated to turn off lights is an example that people are becoming more aware of the environment.
I have once watched on TV about a Japanese research on disposing CFCs, and it was mentioned there that approximately after 30 to 40 years from now the third world countries could be able to dispose CFCs (or avoid usng CFCs) the proper way by which the ozone layer will not be destructed.
From this view, this Earth Day celebration will somehow prolong the time bomb not to explode in the near future. Hopefully it will reach another 30 or 40 years or even 100 years or more. It’s not only CFC but there are also other factors to be controlled. It so happen that this element is the most harmful to the layer.
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
 
Rice is one of the staple food of the world. People somehow take this for granted due to its abundance. But today is different, a rice shortage is happening and this will eventually create another social unrest or worst, uprising especially from people scaled in the lower class in which these individuals are the planting these rices in the fields.
Rice fields where only available and planted only in countries where there’s enough sun and rain. Asia in particular is one of the continent producing rice. Though not all the countries do focus on the production, but I was extremely sad to know that the Philippines as one of rice producing country had forgotten its ample contribution in the rice production.
There are places in the Philippines that people could harvest their crop up to three times in a year. It is still happening today, but the production is no longer sufficient to support the constituents. As stated by a cause oriented farmers organization, “the Philippine Government doesn’t have program to enhance the rice production of the country.” Instead, the government rely on importing rice from other rice producing countries like Vietnam, Thailand to mention some.
Philippines in particular was once exporting rice during the 70’s and early 80’s. In fact, foreign students from Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and other neighboring countries were once studied how to till rice fields in some of the finest agriculture universities and colleges before (70’s and 80’s).
Due to rice shortage, some of the world’s rice producing countries had control their rice exports to sustain the needs of their own people. If this shortage will prolong to another year, these countries might totally stop exporting rice to other countries as well. Who will be affected? Who else do you think? The people who doesn’t have enough money to buy this staple food will be greatly affected and the consequence will be unbearable.
We all know that a “hungry stomach will do anything just to satisfy the tummy and empty stomach sends electronic signals to the brain that may cause the person to act unfavorably just to get that rice to gratify the urgent needs.”
People and countries who produce rice should now act or create laws pertaining to rice developments, enhancements and most especially those fields should not be converted to industrial facility.
I, myself is a rice eater and I can eat rice alone even without viand. Replacing rice with a hum berger in my table will be a major concern for me and so the same to any other individuals out there who are rice eaters too.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Base on the social structure point view (the triangular form), there are only few who are in the elite level. The same view when it come to statuses of countries. There only few countries who really are in the elite level.
Obviously, the middle class including the lower class, the masses as everybody called it are people who are patronizing products produced by these business oriented capitalist countries elite countries, same with individual too. People or countries in the middle class don’t have any choice, do they?
Everyone is lucky enough, I think. Because we still have the chance to grab these luxuries of life even if life is so hard. Well, I would like to reiterate that this perspective differ with yours because of the varying cultures and up bringing we are into.
The hunger problem that is being experienced in Heiti would be a better view for us to come up with the same perspective, I think. This country has been in this status even before. Though there are worldwide organizations extending help for this country, it seems that the hunger problem did not even ease a bit. The fact the people here are already eating mud cake is an obvious example that the change did not progress at all. Instead, it changes to a more severe problem.
Have you read or heard this maxim: “Everybody is expecting that Somebody will do it, but Nobody did it.” Now, who’s to blame? “Nobody,” who else do you think?
This maxim had been the result of what is happening in Heiti right now. Based on the current situation, logically, though there are assistance extended before, nobody has really give something that these people will have the chance to live life to the fullest.
Individual differences you may say, when will this end? These differences are making people go into something unfavorable for us, but favorable for them. While everybody is thinking of harmonious relationships, nobody really is working for it.
This excerpt my enlighten us somehow:
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?” an excerpt from the Merchant of Venice, Scene 1.
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Who will be the most affected people when an agricultural land is converted to something else? When effect will be felt? Who think that converting a field a good reformation for the farmer?
Obviously, the most affected people when an agricultural land converted into an industrial facility will be the farmers who had been tilling this parcel of land as their source of living.
Though they could have another and better source via this industrial facility, we all know that plants have a great effect to the environment. Not to mention that these farmers are contributing immensely in the production of food. Their lives will change suddenly due to to the abrupt change. Surely, they will not adapt the environment immediately.
Scientifically speaking, if an organism will be relocated to a new place, there are chances that the organism will die if he could not immediately adapt the new environment. Humans are just an organism on the earth just like any organism living in here.
I might sound sentimental, but these industrial facility though it could help also uplift the lives of the farmers, the land that had been covered by plants and to be covered by asphalt and cement will just accelerate the time bomb of global warming.
The farm is strategically located according to those promulgators. Surely, they will earn millions here, but the farmers will just be paid by the value of the land and later hired as a worker - an additional convincing resolution.
I am not in any way against with industrialization, but to displace and distort people’s thinking is another issue. One of my professors said, “that depends on your value in life.” What is value anyway? May I know you values?
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
The world is getting hotter and hotter due to excessive distraction in the ozone layer which block ultraviolet rays. The hole that has been seen continues to widen. The good part of it is that we can now utilize the heat being thrown in the earth by making a solar energy.
Solar energy is one of the best ways to help minimize the use of elements destroying and polluting our fresh air . Let say for example, a solar car will no longer emit carbon dioxide. It means that we no longer inhale a toxic air. In addition, the solar energy will not be consumed unlike the coal deposits that is being mined all over the desert countries like Kuwait.
The recent competition held in Australia where the Philippines competed with there solar car is only an example that shows a big opportunity on minimizing the use of gasoline and petroleum products.
While refining this coal deposits, the refinery is emitting a hazardous air which is being carried through air all over the place. One way or another, there is a possible contribution of this toxic air in making this world hot.
I’m sure, after that competition in Australia, some countries are beginning to design their own new solar energy car.
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Fish as we all know, is one of the basic food most of the people here on earth is eating. It produces also a good decent living for other. Though to some other places of the world, fishing is a sports. In fact, there are countries annually celebrating fishing competition like in the north America. but some families, they make fishing as an adventure, bonding, with family and friends. In this case, fishing is a part of the lifestyle of an individual.
In some part of North Americ, fishing is not ordinary because they doing this on the ice deposits. They are creating a through and through hole in the ice where they will lower their hooks to catch some fish living under the ice.
But due to ozone depletion and global warming, this ice fishing in some part of North America is no longer done and this will surely happen also to some other places where ice fishing is done. Though the Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) had been minimized, the damage on the ozone is already unbearable. In fact, skin cancer on places or countries of white people, skin cancer is rampant. This is one of the effects of the ozone depletion.
Ice fishing on the other hand, is no longer possible (in some places of North America) because of the tremendous heat. Ozone depletion watchers spotted just recently that a hole on the ozone layer continue to expand. This only proves that the area where ice fishing is possible will continue to deplete also.
If the ozone layer continue to deplete and global warming increases, the earth will be like a time bomb that will explode eventually. But of course, this will not happen today, tomorrow or the next year, but it will soon.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Obviously, there are lots of people who became famous because of the immeasurable commitment in making this world a better place to live in. Lots of names have been included on the books of history being taught in the classrooms.
Likewise changes of the land mass being recorded, though some of this are based only on theories, the changes are obvious. Like the melting of the ice that had been aired recently, about the possible natural creation of passage within the melting of ice. According to the news, it will take some more time to clear the ice burgs.
Another is the production of chemicals that destroys the ozone layer, though today CFC had been controlled its production the distraction has been done and ultra-violate rays continues to pursue and creating chaos to the human race.
What had happened in the past has something to do with the future. The earth continues to revolve. Everybody is expecting that somebody will do some actions to reverse or minimize the unfavorable occurrences. Shall we just wait and see?
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