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Combating climate change and making the planet greener and cleaner is an issue for everyone. 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 and other environmental impacts would have such an impact on world hunger and poverty. 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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
You Can Easily Green Your Daily Routine. View Tips “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
Oregon Country Fair
© 2016 Skip Plitt, All Rights Reserved.
This photo may not be used in any form without permission from the photographer.
Todos los derechos reservados. Esta foto no se puede utilizar en cualquier forma sin el permiso del fotógrafo.
Combating climate change and making the planet greener and cleaner is an issue for everyone. 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 and other environmental impacts would have such an impact on world hunger and poverty. 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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
You Can Easily Green Your Daily Routine. View Tips “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
does matter. Though not entirely obvious from the skewed perspective here, the CN Tower/Le Tour CN, between the two high rises on the right, dwarfs all the other towers in the city. Well, it dwarfs most man made structures in the world. It never ceases to amaze me, just how that thing stays upright. The top of it sways quite far in the wind. If you visit Toronto, you must go up. Have a meal in the revolving restaurant, and pay the extra money to go to the highest level open to the public. We were walking back from the MEC store. (Mountain Equipment Co-op). This was just after I was abandoned by my entire family. lol Homeless, and alone, in downtown Toronto. Sadly, this street has a lot of homeless on it, even though it is the Theatre District. Or, maybe because it is the Theatre District.
"Blood" was painted on the stairs leading up to Guelph's main catholic church as symbolism for the catholic church's association with the heinous crimes of abusing, even killing, Indigenous children.
Berlin-Treptow, Soviet war memorial
Nikon F3HP, Fomapan 400 in Adox XT-3
This film sat in the "to develop" box for so long that I actually don't recall the lens(es) used. Most probably it's the pancake 50mm f/1.8 AiS
Black Lives Matter Rally
June 5, 2020
Edmonton, Alberta
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stylist: natalia viera
makeup: adriana adorno
model: ashley gonzalez
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Clojure eXchange 2016, Thursday, 1st - Friday, 2nd December at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7430-clojure-exchange-2016 Images copyright www.edtelling.com
I am unsure what this slogan means , on the side of this London Overground Class 378 Bombardier Derby built Electric Multiple Unit
378216 has just arrived from Clapham Junction , where it departed at 1132 , on Service 2L51 .
Stratford Station , East London .
Tuesday 13th-November-2018 .
It's not how long we held each other's hand
What matters is how well we loved each other
It's not how far we travelled on our way
Of what we found to say
It's not the spring you see, but all the shades of green
It's not how long I held you in my arms
What matters is how sweet the years together
It's not how many summertimes we had to give to fall
The early morning smiles we tearfully recall
What matters most is that we loved at all.
It's not how many summertimes we had to give to fall
The early morning smiles we tearfully recall
What matters most is that we loved at all.
bithbox # 186
"It's April so let's kick off the set with "Come January"
After more than two C-19 years, last Saturday we finally enjoyed live music again in a venue rather than streamed live over the internet. It was a delight that Dorset's finest, Ninebarrow, played TheExchange at Sturminster Newton, a small but excellent hall with around 300 seats.
Friends for many years and then marriage partners, they first started playing music about a decade ago. In 2016 they gave up their full-time jobs to concentrate on Ninebarrow. Jay (on the left) was a G.P. and Jon a teacher. Since then they have become not just well-known in Dorset (with several songs based around the local area) but have also become one of the top 'new' folk-orientated acts throughout Britain. You can read much more about them, their music, their walking holiday and their woodland project here www.ninebarrow.co.uk/
This is what music should be all about. Compare and contrast to the Saturday night tv musical "talent" shows.
[This photo is for C. London's 52 Weeks of Photography Challenge - www.clondon.me/blog/52weeks0]
" The paper says the whole world is on fire. But this street is quiet... "
I hope as things start to feel a little less raw, we don't forget the way the last week has felt. The anger may fade, and so might your shame, but the determination to fix things should not fall from your conscious. Continue to provide support and messaging in the ways that you can. Continue to support businesses owned and operated by people of color. Continue to donate, and keep these issues front of mind when you vote in November and every opportunity after that. The establishments that are in power in this country want you to feel satiated and content again so that they can continue business as normal. Our attention span is one of the largest threats to equality and justice in this country.
This photo challenge is a selfish endeavor. It's solely about myself and my goals. This hasn't been the time for me to focus on me, and I shouldn't be trying to make myself the center of attention. The world outside is much more important. This prompt was "Your Neighborhood".
On Sunday 10th July 2016 hundreds held a protest in Liverpool in solidarity with the #blacklivesmatter movement in America.
Herbert Matter ad for Knoll around 1957. From Knoll Design by Eric Larrabee, designed by Vignelli and published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York. www.modernism101.com/knoll_1950.php is an interesting outline of his work with Knoll.
"True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well being of ones companion." — Gordon B. Hinckley
Location: Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Canon EOS-1V HS
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Rollei Reto 80s
I have two pairs of high heels I rarely wear but positively love. I don't wear them often because it makes me tall, and generally brings me eye-to-eye at the least with most of the male species, and it's always nice having to look up at them a little. I pull them out every now and again - I wore these ones, which I've had longer and are just plain black 'court shoes' but took me many hours of agonizing shop trawling to find the perfect pair of, to a party with jeans a few weeks ago. It was nice. The other pair is definitely more gorgeous, brown leather thingamabobs, still plain and same kind of shape but ahh so good, just liked these for this shot better. This didn't work like I wanted, oh well.