Cool Cities

When the industrial revolution started in the eighteenth century the CO2 in the world started to increase. The solution for that problem is to find another earth but that is impossible so we need to decrease the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 50%. In Japan in the past thirty years the Gross Domestic Product has increased by 100% and the energy efficiency has rose by 37% and the oil burning up decreased by 8%.



The most two sources of CO2 are buildings and transportation which emits about 90% of the whole carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. People have found a new way to decrease the amount of CO2 it is by building new cities called Cool Cities that have no carbon dioxide emissions. They are built in Japan by SDCJ. In Cool Cities the transportation used there are CO2 free for example they use solar ships, hybrid cars, and light powered rails. There are some facilities in these cities like business public zones, residential zones, and sports zones. Designers of these cities uses water, trees, and roof membrane to keep the city cool. These cities are expected to decrease CO2 emissions by 50 to 80% and the overall average is 60%.

Carbon Footprints

Carbon footprint represents the amount of carbon dioxide emissions produced yearly by a single person. This is done by calculating the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person daily activities, power consumption, and journeys. My annual footprint is 19.80 and if I didn’t reduced my footprint I'll need about 3.36 planet earth to live the same life I live now.

I should change my life style to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide I emit alone. I am really an irresponsible person I keep the lights and air conditioner open all day long even if I'm out side the house. I also drive a lot and most of my rides are unnecessary. I should close all sources of power if they are not used and I should reduce or stop the joy rides.

Lebanon and History

Lebanon is one of the places that is mentioned in the bible. It has been known from a very long time and it is called in the bible as the land of milk and honey. It is located in the Middle East exactly between Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Israel, and Cyprus. Beirut is the capital of Lebanon; it is nicknamed as "Paris of the Middle East" because of the French occupation and the effects of language and style of building they kept there.

From 1943 to1948 the Christians in Lebanon held the balance of power and the Muslims didn’t have a thing that can be remembered. After the Israeli-Arab war about 100,000 Palestinian moved to. When Palestinians arrived the number of Muslims rose which made there power increase also. In 1975, the tensions between the Muslims and Christians reached their peak when a Christian group attacked a bus full of Palestinians Muslims which caused a war between them. The Tensions resulted in the death of 2,000 Palestinians. The Syrian army sent 20,000 troops, and the land was divided between the Christians and Muslims. In 1982, the Israeli army invaded Lebanon to remove the PLO (Palestinian liberation organization).



In 1989, the peace deal was signed to stop the civil war. The cost of humans and economy conflict was quit big loss: between 150,000-200,000 Lebanese where killed, about 300,000 Lebanese were injured, and the Economy got affected too much. Signs of recovery have appeared for example, shopping malls are being built, roads are built, and people have started wearing western clothes. Still there are some current problems like unemployment people are a is high, 300,000 young people left the country, and the distribution of money is unfair.



"Eye on Lebanon." Global Eye. 25 Spring 2006. Royal Geogaphical Society. 8 Apr. 2008 .

The Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore was the vise president for Bill Clinton and was promoted to be the president of the United States. After that he turned his attention to the environment precisely to the global warming and the disasters that could happen from it. He was one of the first's to alert the people about this big problem and the green house effect that happens in our planet. Al Gore kept on giving speeches to people and tries to convince them to limit the carbon dioxide that our cars and factories produce.

Global warming is a fact that happens when carbon dioxide increase in our planet which makes the ozone layer thicker and stop infrared rays from escaping out of the atmosphere. This makes the planet warmer and causes the melt of glaciers and ice in the poles. The continues melting of ice make the sea level rises at a level that all costal cities will sink. Sources of drinking water will dry up which will limit also the water people drinks.



Another problem is that the warm currents could turn in disastrous hurricanes when they bump to a cold current. Further more diseases are appearing that affected all living thing in the world. Human being and all living things could suffer a lot if they stop there and do nothing. Al Gore wanted the people to know about these disasters and most of them didn’t give it the amount of attention it needs.

My Opinion

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In my opinion, global warming is a crisis that needs to be solved. So After watching the movie I became more aware of the carbon dioxide emissions and their effects on the environment. Al Gore displayed the result of his research and stated that temperature is increasing all over the world, and the sea level is also increasing due to the melting of glaciers. What triggered people attention as Al Gore said, is the hurricane of Katrina that stroke the US citizens and economy.

Al Gore the potential candidate for year 2000 elections is a very good speaker, he is a very good messenger, and he is clear in his accent, so from a range of one to ten ill give him nine.

Blood Diamonds

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Global warming

The green house effect is the principle used when radiation comes from the sun and inters the earth atmosphere and can't bounce back out of it. Global warming represents the increasing rising temperature of the planet due to the trapped infrared radiations by some gases like carbon dioxide.

Global warming causes a big problem to earth. When the temperature rises the glaciers and freezed water in the North Pole and the South Pole well melt so the sea level will rise. The land will decrease and the high sea level will cover it which is a big problem because a lot of costal cities will drown if this happens.



The land and living things will suffer from rising temperature. A lot of land animals cannot survive with the sudden change of temperature including the humans. Sea animals will also suffer from that and will be found dead floating if the temperature rises. As we can see, this is a serious problem which needs to be solved.