Politics have a great inpact on the enviroment. I think that if any political view would be the most enviromental would be anarchy if all technology would fail at the same time, but monarchy could also work if the emperor/king/whatever would actually be good enough to think for everyone. Sadly, human greed will still exist and eventually all will fail. What I want to hear are political views that could be good for the enviroment.
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Curiosity, the most complex and powerful robotic spacecraft ever built for work on distant planets is being readied for launch to Mars on Saturday. Curiosity is on a mission to look for organic compounds and signs of whether the planet might be - or might ever have been - habitable.
The nuclear-powered craft will reach Mars next August, entering the thin atmosphere at 3,200mph for a descent to the floor of a 100-mile-wide crater. Check out this very neat video of the space rover’s mission.
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Nina Dumas Nov. 25, 2011
OMG… that is the coolest video I've ever seen! I never imagined that is how a space rover arrives to a distant planet. Incroyable! -
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Carbon emissions divide ‘can be bridged: The new report, Bridging the Emissions Gap, by The United Nations Environment Programme (Unep), says that if sectors such as energy, farming, forestry and transport all cut emissions by feasible amounts, global warming can be kept below 2C. But countries’ current pledges are not enough to meet the 2C target.
Nothing revolutionary is needed, they conclude, if every sector makes its appropriate cuts. And the cost would be small. So, there is hope. Now, there must be the will to do it.
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West Africa, A Radio Station (Built From Podcasts) For Democracy: West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) is promoting open society through their broadcasts, which they’ve hacked together from technology designed for music sharing in the developed world.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678873/in-west-africa-a-radio-station-built-from-podcasts-for-democracy
Launched by George Soros’ Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), West Africa Democracy Radio is a French- and English-language radio service that broadcasts in Dakar, Senegal and distributes content to more than 30 partner community stations throughout West Africa via satellite and CD.
Video of Peter Kahler, director of WADR, discussing how the station is innovating
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I think that there should be a small country that would be like the old times, farming own food and stuff. Not many maybe would actually live there, but it would have the honor to be the most enviromental country in the world. No unnecessary electronics. It could work, humanity went through worse.
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Erin G-USA Nov. 25, 2011
I think that's a very interesting idea! I think it would be great to visit a place like that so that we could see that it is possible to live without electronics, fast food, and all the other modern things we have that we think it would be impossible to live life without. I also think that the people who lived there would probably even be some of the healthiest people in the world. They would certainly have by far the smallest carbon footprint! :)
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My name is Mona and I am from Sweden. I wonder if the hunger can be eliminated, but for me it seems that every hungry people in this world is increasing every year ! What is your opinion of this difficulties ?
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Aura R-USA Nov. 25, 2011
Hunger in this world is caused by poverty. If we can get people to have the ability to live off of more than 1 dollar a day we would be at a better start. In places around the world children and adults are dying because they have a lack of money/ source of income. People are always trying to help people in poverty with education, but how do we expect to help people who's first priority is to feed themselves. People areound the world can't even find food. So it's just seems to me that we slowly but progressivly have to realize that we need to help one thing at a time. We have to eliminate poverty and deaths from starvation and then go to education. because we all know that when we are in class and are hungry we can't pay attention. Imagine if you hadn't eaten in days -
Tricia J -USA Nov. 25, 2011
Micayla, that is so true! If instead of buying tons of christmans presents everyone cut maybe half of there spendings and donated that, it would probably solve world hunger. It would not only solve hunger but also many other problems. Half of your presents may seem like a lot but it would still help a lot if everyone just donated a few dollars. -
Elizabeth C - USA Nov. 25, 2011
I think that another problem that we face is greed. Even when people help other countries by giving them food, the people in leadership positions who are in charge of handing out the food will sometimes abuse their privliges. Instead of distributing the food to the hungry people, they will take the food and sell it so that they may become richer. This still leaves us with the same problem of hungry people. I think that hunger is a cycle that can be broken, but it will definitely take some time and some hard work.
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I think that everything a human need is food, water and some kind of shelter so that we won’t freeze to death etc. We don’t NEED cellphones, computers, music, soft furniture, ton of clothes, cars and so on. But there is something I started to think about, and that is; Do we really need school? At first I thought: Ofc, if we don’t have education we won’t get money and stuff, but then I thought that if NOBODY have education, we would be equal (except for the things that the older people have learned from experience). It’s an interesting thought and I just wanted to share it, even though I know it wouldn’t work out in this society.
(((Another thing is that even if we don’t need stuff like cellphones, music and things like that to survive we still kind of need it. We’ve gotten used to live in luxury and it’s hard to learn to live not to have those things. I know that you probably will think this is stupid, but there are some things in life for a human that is important to them. For a human to have a personality we may need those “want” things.)))
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Andie M-USA Nov. 26, 2011
I think you're exactly right Sara! We don't NEED these things. Sure they are helpful and probably a big part of our lives, but they aren't necessary for our existence. -
Kathryn Criaco Nov. 26, 2011
I agree and disagree with what Sarah said. I know that a lot of modern things are bad for the enviroment, but that doesnt mean we should get rid of all of it. Also without school society would not make any advancements in anything, and eventually all doctors, scientists, engineers, and other educated people would disappear, which means society would go back to the way it was a long time ago. That means that the quality of life would go down. -
Sara B Sweden Nov. 27, 2011
That thought have of course also hit me, Kathryn! But then I thought that; We can actually live without that…sure our living standards would go down (an I don't want that… >_<), but we have managed to live like that in the old days… So we don't actually need it, but if we want to live a GOOD life, yeah, then we will need it.
I think that discussing things like this is amusing, but at the same time frustrating…I just can't decide what I think is right!
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Yandex To Become Default Search Engine On Windows Phone In Russia–Yandex, the Russian online search and advertising giant, has teamed up with Microsoft, Nokia, HTC and Samsung to become the default search engine on the latest – and upcoming – Windows Phone smartphones in Russia. Yandex’s share of the Russian search market averaged 62.7 percent in Q3 2011, trumping Google by a margin.
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There is also a company called “myrorna” which means the ants. They collect old clothes you don’t want anymore and donates them to people who needs them more.
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srini n Nov. 25, 2011
I have read that such work is done by the Salvation Army in the US. There are a few volunteer organisations that do similar work in India. -
Katherine T-USA Nov. 26, 2011
Yeah, the Salvation Army does that. It's great way to recycle clothes and help people in need! If you would like to learn more about the Salvation Army, here's the link:
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We reuse the plastic bags we get at stores as garbage bags in our garbage cans. Also, we reuse paper bags to collect bottles, paper, plastic, just about anything, really. When they get full, we take them to vrious staions for recyclning. In Sweden we have a system that’s called “pant”. In every grocery store you can find, you can hand in your empty bottles and cans and get a small amount of money for each bottle or can. only we and Finland use this system, even though all country’s in the world should use it. It should certainly come in handy in country’s with alot of poverty.
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srini n Nov. 25, 2011
In India a lot of ppl throw garbage out into community bins or even in open places where they dont have such bins. Some poor ppl called rag pickers pick plastic items and take them to a few commercial outfits who buy the items from them at a very low price and use them as raw material. This is not very organised and does not incentivise anyone except the commercial establishments that buy the material.
The overall carbon footprint of India as a country is low but still we can do more to reduce it even further. -
Pam Miller March 6, 2012
In California, there is a fee charged for beverage containers at the time of purchase. You can bring them to recycling centers to get reimbursed.
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