Global Competitiveness Report

can’t be matched with pixels on a screen” (Catone). There is the feel of the paper, the artwork of the cover, and the smell of the book. Books use paper from trees, paper leads to trees and deforestation. Society must address problems that lead to global warming because the earth is more important than having this physical feeling from a book. Although a digital book cannot be made to feel like an actual book, as digital books continue to develop, they are beginning to incorporate some of…

We live on a beautiful and life giving planet that we don’t want to see being destroyed but still it seems that we carry out extreme and illogical activities that counter that presumption. Humans by nature are selfish and although that is something we cannot change anytime soon, there needs to be some sort of education for people to understand their actions that they play on the environment. We only have one planet and we should take care of it. The incredible devastation that animal agriculture…

burning fossil fuels in the quantity at which we were doing so would eventually result in elevated mean annual global temperature was Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 (Enzler, 2014). In the early 1900s, other scientists believed that the Earth was experiencing global cooling trends until Stephen Schneider and research in the 1980’s produced evidence that the annual mean global temperature was rising (Enzler, 2014). The estimated rate at which temperatures were rising was so steep that…

level of concern about the upward trend of average global temperature caused by climate change. Global surface temperature in 1999 increased at a higher rate than any other recordings of the previous years, going from changes of a couple hundredths to the more previous change of 0.2˚C (Hansen et al, 1999). The rising of average global temperatures is a worldwide problem, and this temperature change seems to be an ongoing upward tendency. Global surface temperature has increased about 0.2˚C…

my group Kamil Pisula Emily Ng Winnie Lee and Parsha Kahn always had their content on google drive and allowed us to easily transfer our group paper over the internet very quickly. They all had segments that was related to the warming climate and global warming. With the similar topics we were all able to intertwine the information and the group paper was much more efficient in terms of information. They were able to supply me with the information I needed. At first there was no rubric for the…

Since methane is a fossil fuel, it contributes to global warming and the greenhouse effect. Thus, people argue methane hydrates should not be used for energy since it is accelerating the warming of the planet. With current technology, it is almost impossible for methane to not escape when extracting it…

demographers expect California alone to add 400,000 new residents per year—increasing its population from 36 million to 51 million by 2040.1 Global warming is already causing rivers, lakes and reservoirs to evaporate faster than normal. Even a mountain’s snow pack, which acts as a giant storage of frozen water, is being reduced in the amount of water it holds by global warming. So there is already a need to find alternate storage for water; especially in California. This brings up important…

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss About the Book Long before saving the Earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the Earth’s natural beauty. Your Mission Read the book and think about how it relates to us today. Write a letter to Mother Earth stating what you will do to preserve her. Your letter should be submitted electronically and sent as an attachment to Mrs. Jarrett at ajarrett@henry.k12.va.us by…

Pangolins are unique and strange creatures. They also have some crazy features too. Tens of wild Pangolins are killed each year. They look like a mixture of a sloth and a scaly lizard. It looks scary, cool, and nice. You should take care of creatures cause one day they might be here anymore. They live in different habitats. They all have different lifestyles. All of them have different ways to catch their food, and to defend themselves. First, pangolins are endangered. There two types of…

Nobody has an accurate count of the world’s volcanoes, and around fifty to seventy volcanos erupt every year. How do volcanoes affect people and environments? Volcanos around the world affect the environments by making the soil more rich and crops easier to grow, due to the deposits the volcanoes put out. People are also affected by volcanoes by making the environments more beautiful, which causes more tourists to come see the beauty of the land. Volcanoes around the world affect the…