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Combating climate change and making the planet greener and cleaner is an issue for everyone. Climate change is no longer a distant, futuristic scenario, but an immediate threat. How times have changed since World Environment Day was launched by the United Nations General Assembly 36 years ago. We wonder if they considered then that today climate change, global warming, natural disasters and the effects of global climate change --- deforestation, desertification, flooding, sea-level rise, beach erosion and other environmental impacts would have such an impact on world hunger and poverty.
Climate change is expected to put an estimated 50 million more people at risk of hunger and water stress by 2020. By 2050 a third of the people on Earth may lack a clean, secure source of water. It poses a serious threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially during a period of global economic recession, when resources needed to cope with climate change may be reassigned.
Poor people in developing countries are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The negative impacts on their crop yields are already being felt and will be increasingly severe. Climate change is likely to affect forest expansion and migration, and exacerbate threats to biodiversity resulting from land use/cover change and population pressure. Marine and coastal ecosystems are likely to be affected by sea level rise and temperature increases. Human health will also be adversely affected. Rising temperatures and rainfall variability had led to more climate-induced diseases and heat stress. Experts predict climate change-related stresses -- including disasters, food and water shortages and conflicts over scarce resources -- could permanently uproot 200 to 250 million people by mid-century. In many countries defence forces might find themselves torn between humanitarian relief operations and guarding their borders against climate refugees, as climate change and scarce resources, forcing millions of climate refugees across the borders.
United Nations demographers estimate that the world’s population will grow from today’s 6.7 billion people to somewhere between 7.8 billion and 10.8 billion by 2050. The solutions of global warming, climate refugees, extreme poverty and high levels of population growth will require entirely new relationships between the world’s human and natural systems. The world has yet to figure out how it will deal with global warming, changing rainfall patterns, melting glaciers, rising sea-levels and climate refugees.
According to new technique and research our planet's continents were arranged 2.5 billion years ago. We are homo consumens of the earth and very young specie still trying to understand the mysteries of nature and in our ignorance we have destroyed it. Climate change offers humanity no second chances. Only rich countries can break the deadlock crippling international climate negotiations and prevent the world lurching into climate disaster. We should find a way to measure the general well-being of the people and planet rather than just raw economic growth.
You Can Easily Green Your Daily Routine. View Tips “here”.
Like the carbon footprint, water footprints are one of the latest methods scientists and policy makers are using to assess humanity's impact on the planet. And now businesses are starting to use water footprinting as well.
You can calculate your water footprint “here”.
Your Planet Needs You!
Unite to Combat Climate Change!
Encourage Slower Population Growth!
You can view slide pages from Social Geographic. “here”.
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
It was never my story to tell I am not the person suffering. But that doesn't mean I can't show support for the people who do suffer
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
~ Epictetus ~
Explore 104: Highest position: 401 on Monday, January 12, 2009
Black Lives Matter Rally
June 5, 2020
Edmonton, Alberta
www.pipestoneflyer.ca/news/edmonton-black-lives-matter-pr...
The world is loosing its colors. Maybe it's because I'm getting older now, but the fog in front of my eyes is getting thicker and thicker after every year, after every event that happens. It is harder now to see the light. Depression is the worst. Does it still all matter? Yes. Reason? No. Why? No other option. How long? As long as all the daemons are banished from the mind.
Every Child Matters is a slogan and message used to honour the innocent lives lost. It symbolises that every child is important, including the ones who lose their lives and the adults who are still healing from their difficult time at residential schools.
Batman: " Cuz Life Matters " .. .. Lol and that gave me hope
day 3 : and still no improvments =(
girls i really misssssss uuuuuuu
hmmm 3:45 after 5 mins. our class will end :(
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This is the photo to show the extremely small size of the newborn fawn. Makes mother Doe look like a moose by comparison.
Photo not processed other than cropping...just used as documentation.
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It's nice to see a small neighbourhood convenience store in East York standing up for social justice.
Note: During Toronto's current lockdown, convenience stores are considered "essential services" and can remain open as long as they follow public health guidelines including wearing masks and maintaining social distance.
Say their names: Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, Ahmaud Arbery, Breanna Taylor, George Floyd #BlackLivesMatter #BLM
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Fiddler crabs are comical little creatures, with their eyes on stalks and one mighty claw. They use that claw to wave in the air and fight each in courtship rituals. It's all for show though, because they run like the dickens at the first sign of trouble or camera, scattering and ducking into holes in the sand and crevices in the mangrove roots. Hundreds of them can disappear in a matter of seconds, which makes them a challenging subject to shoot.
"It's the little things that matter
As you travel down the road.
And there's joy and great contentment
In sharing someone's load.
To you it's such a little thing
And hardly worth the time,
But, brother, it can mean a lot
With a long hard hill to climb.
Our lives are filled with ups and downs;
More downs than ups, it seems.
And often times a helping hand
Brings closer still our dreams.
If there be that which we may do
To lighten someone's way.
Let's do it, then, and thank the Lord
This was our lucky day."
~ L. Noyes
Another lovely mosaic of visions from Harbor View Park in Naka-ku (Yokohama, Japan).
1. Little Things Matter [1], 2. Little Things Matter [2], 3. Little Things Matter [3], 4. Little Things Matter [4]
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Jar Jar Minifigure is tired to be "mistreated" by the entire Lego universe so he was thinking (hey wait, he can think?! Lol ) about revenge.
One day, by skill and intelligence ( very unlikely) or by luck (very likely) he was able to contact his Action Figure version from a parallel universe.
The Jar Jar Action Figure was obviously mistreated by every other figure lol and so they two Jar Jar had an idea ( it takes two Jar Jar to have an idea, since alone they can't have one lol ) to exact some revenge.
The action figure reached the Lego universe when he thought his larger size would have proved a threat for other Minfigures.
However he runs into Lex Luthor and his high tech mech.
Since now Lex is not "completely" a bad guy (still egomaniac, of course) he soon decides to act like a hero and give the oversized Jar Jar a lesson :)
Jar Jar: "Mesa Bombad Godzilla! Mesa boom everything! Mesa.."
Lex's Mech grabs Jar Jar.
Lex: " Your existence offends the very concept of intelligence and stupidity is the greatest crime! Beside I have no time for galactic annoyances on steroid. So hold still while I test my new weapon on your empty head."
In the end Jar Jar' size matters not :) He is always treated like that lol :)
Like I always say there is no real hate toward any character, creator of characters or actors who played any character. This is just a little parody made for fun :)
May the Brick be with You :)
He said ' Life is Tough" I said "Sometimes Rough". He said " I care, I agreed with no fear. He said "I am there'' - I saw an empty path leading nowhere.
Combating climate change and making the planet greener and cleaner is an issue for everyone. How times have changed since World Environment Day was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. We wonder if they considered then that today climate change and other environmental impacts would have such an impact on world hunger and poverty.
Climate change is expected to put an estimated 50 million more people at risk of hunger and water stress by 2020. It poses a serious threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially during a period of global economic recession, when resources needed to cope with climate change may be reassigned. Agriculture and deforestation account for 30 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. These two sectors can therefore contribute to reducing emissions if agricultural practices are changed.
Poor people in developing countries are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The negative impacts on their crop yields are already being felt and will be increasingly severe. Climate change is likely to affect forest expansion and migration, and exacerbate threats to biodiversity resulting from land use/cover change and population pressure. Marine and coastal ecosystems are likely to be affected by sea level rise and temperature increases. Human health will also be adversely affected. Rising temperatures and rainfall variability had led to more climate-induced diseases and heat stress.
We are homo consumens of the earth and very young specie still trying to understand the mysteries of nature and in our ignorance we have destroyed it. Climate change offers humanity no second chances. Only rich countries can break the deadlock crippling international climate negotiations and prevent the world lurching into climate disaster. We should find a way to measure the general well-being of the people and planet rather than just raw economic growth.
You Can Easily Green Your Daily Routine. View Tips “here”.
Your Planet Needs You!
Unite to Combat Climate Change!
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
Black Lives Matter Rally
June 5, 2020
Edmonton, Alberta
www.pipestoneflyer.ca/news/edmonton-black-lives-matter-pr...
Here are a couple of Black Lives Matter murals in downtown Raleigh that were created after the death of George Floyd. These can be found on South Blount Street in Raleigh, NC.
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