Posted by 2KJERSTEN.(: on October 14, 2011 at 9:38am
Presentations:Environmental Substainability.Part 1: Josh B.A Main Topic:Deforestaion. clearing of trees, can happen naturally or purpously.Reasons for Deforestation: -Lumber, -coal, -pasture, -plantations, -growth and -poverty.Concerns of Deforestation: -Atmospheric, -Hydrological, -soil, -BiodiversityAtomospheric has global warming, greenhouse effect,less rainfall and runoff.Soil and Biodiversity: -erosion, -loess plateau, -less shelters for animals and life would die.Climate Change: -Changes in weather patterns, -Climate forcings and then the future...like what could it leed to?Causes or climate change: -Solar Radiation, -Mountain-Buliding and -continetal drift.Part 2: Jacob Taggs.Target: Halve, by 2015, the porportion of the population without substainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.Part 3: Alex Pearson.Target: by 2020, to achieve a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.slum dweller:A run down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security.Problems the world is having with slums:-they lack basic service and many health issues.-To many diseases in the slums-Birth Rate too high-Need more food and clean water.Part 4: Nic Malberg.Target: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving by 2010, a significate reduction in the rate of loss.Falied Target! Missed the target! Improved a little bit but not much.17,000 species of plants and animals are still endangered.Presentation:Child Health: Johnny,Nick and Camren.Goal: Reduce the child mortality rate by 2015.'Birth Defects:-Abnormalities of struture,function,or body metabolism.-A lot of birth defects are from alcohol.-150,000 new borns get birth defects each year in the US-1 in 150 have heart problems.Diseases that are effecting children these days:-chickenpox, whooping cough, measles and there are many more.-in developing countires, half of all child deaths are from diseases because they dont have all the medicince we have in the US.Then we went over the canada map.
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