U.S. Millineum Goal Presentations (continued):Josh, Alex, Taggs, and Nic: (Enviormental sustainability)Josh: Main topics are deforestation; the reasons for deforestation is for lumber, charcol, pasture, plantations, and then just for more land, and because of poverty (people who dont have much money have no other choice.) COoncerns are the air and the green house effect, they rain cycle, the soil for the plants and growth, and then animal life and habitats, erosion, life dying, less rainfall, global warming.Another key target: Climate change in the weather patterns and what this could lead to in the future. Causes of climate change...solar radiation, mountain building, and continential drift and possibly even humnas. Montreal Protocal is the treaty to stop some substances that pollute from being made. LIke Hydrocarbons etc.Jacob Taggs: Target by 2015 is to halve the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. ( This means that the goals is to have approx. 89 to 90% of the worlds population to have safe drinking water.) THis goal is actually very close and duable compared to the others that may struggle a little bit more. Unsafe water's problems are the chemicals they use arent always safe. The sanitation goal is cut in half for people who dont have sanitary communities; this goal kind of seems out of reach.Alex: The target by 2020 is to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dweller-this means a run down area of a city characterized by a substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenture security. One out of three people live in slums.
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