Today, we started class with the europe map. Then, we had Trey do his presentation.
species destruction- when a species is becoming endangered or is extinct
one of the greatest environmental worries surprassing global warming and pollution
why care about it-
the value of seeing it
Facts-
Nearly 40% of 44,838 species catalogued are listed as "threatened" with extinction, with 3,000 classified as critically endangered
fishing nets, boat strikes, pollution kill mammals
organizations-
The Wild Life Conservation Society
What we can do -
cut rings off 6 packs
report poching and illegal dumping
Recycle
Then we did blog discussions
Matt's topic was about a suicide bombing that killed 7 people and wounded 25 people. the car that was being driven had a lot of explosives in it and it also damaged a school that was near it
Trey's what about a debate about a kid who brought a picture to school of him and the office found it. His family is sueing the school. The school had webcams on the computers so they could keep track of the lap tops
Isaac's was about two al-queda leaders being killed. one US soldier was killed also
Courtney's was about Obama's new nuclear policy. He's trying to get rid of all of the nuclear weapons all over the world, starting with the US. It's stopping all the development of the weapons.
Shannon's was about the weapon policy from 1940 to 1969. The first time we used the nuclear weapons when we were in war with Japan. The first treaty was in 1950 to stop the use of nuclear weapons which didn't get passed. Nuclear Non-proliifriation Treaty said that countries who didn't have nuclear weapons could not develop them
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