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Hello everyone!

My name is Nicolas Quitian, I am high school student at School for Advanced Studies taking Dual Enrollment courses at Miami Dade College. I was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. I would spend most of my time surrounded by my family and friends, creating beautiful memories. I would also enjoy the delicious food that Colombia has, such as Ajiaco and Bandeja Paisa. From an early age I started playing soccer and I fell in love with the sport. I wouldn't miss a single game of my favorite team growing up. I would wear their jersey every week to school.

When I was 12 years old, I was told that my family and I were given the opportunity of migrating to the United States. It was a rough adaptation process where I didn’t know how to speak the language nor understood this new culture. Even though it took me some time, I was able to get used to my new life.

5 years later, I can say that I am very happy of my adaptation journey; one in which I have tried to take advantage of all the opportunities that this new country has opened for me.

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The video section that caught my attention the most is the part where the creation of electricity is explained. It all starts with the fossil fuels that got their energy from the sun a long time ago. Those fuels are used to power turbines that rotate magnets that release electron through electric wires. What fascinates and intrigues me, is how are electrons released from the rotation of magnets. It is a relieve to know that there are more ways of generating electricity that do not involve burning non-renewal fossil fuels. Solar panels can generate electricity received directly from the sun.

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A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman

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How Mass Transit Reduces Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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How Mass Transit Reduces Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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It is a fact that transportation systems are not being sufficient with the global exponential growth of population. In our own city like Miami, we can experience a lot of traffic jams in streets designed many decades ago. For that reason, it makes sense that innovating in the transportation system industry is a tempting opportunity for high tech leaders. This leaders of big revolutionary companies have focus a lot of their efforts to revolutionize this systems, so they started by promising achievements. Most of their proposals were not even started, and none were completed. Now, this projects are abandoned. However, the lecture explains that there are more plausible solutions to problems. This solutions may not be as efficient nor exciting, but they are for sure realistic.

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Why tech billionaires suck at fixing transport

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I didn't know that food waste causes significant damage to our planet. I was surprised to learn how much food is wasted during production and consumption. Food loss and waste occur when food is thrown away or lost from farms to our tables. This is a problem for the environment because it wastes resources and creates harmful gases in landfills. Instead of breaking down naturally, food waste produces harmful methane. This happens because of poor storage, buying too much, and throwing away imperfect food. We can help by buying only what we need, using leftovers, and supporting efforts to share extra food. Communities and businesses can work together to share food better and reduce waste. The goal is to eliminate waste and find better ways to share food, benefiting both the environment and people in need.

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Food waste is contributing to climate change. What’s being done about it?

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Humans have created inventions that can destroy us. This is scary because we could be wiped out by natural disasters or nuclear wars, which could cause a "nuclear winter." Climate change is also a big concern because it could extinct us. Engineered diseases could also cause massive damage in a horrific manner. Additionally, AI is taking away jobs and could eventually replace many of us. We must consider who has control over AI's power since they would have our faith in their hands. These are difficult discussions, but they highlight how fragile our existence is and why we must collaborate to ensure our safety.

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The 4 greatest threats to the survival of humanity

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Raising Awareness About Environmental Issues

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Raising Awareness About Environmental Issues

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I chose the National Geographic video titled "His Epic Message Will Make You Want to Save the World". The video puts into context the extremely short amount of time we have been habituating planet earth. In a ratio, if planet’s earth life time had been 24 hours, we had been living on it for only 3 seconds. Still, we have immeasurably damage it without caring about the consequences. The main idea of this lecture is to show the world that we are the ones guilty for all the natural disaster occurring and that will occur.  Humanity has developed in very impressive ways, discovering amazing things, but many of those amazing things have resulted catastrophic for our home: planet earth. If the human population is wise, we would take a moment to reflect on the damage we have created, but rather than that, we continue to inflict it disregarding the consequences The video puts a lot of emphasis on how fortunate we are for having our planet, and makes sure to state that if we want to keep living on it the way have, we need to start taking care of it.

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His Epic Message Will Make You Want to Save the World | Short Film Showcase

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I watched the video called: "The Story of Electronics"

This video explains how our daily lifestyle is dependent on electronics “Designed for the dump”. Meaning that they are made to be thrown away quickly. As the video explains, today’s electronics are hard to upgrade, easy to break, and difficult to repair. The design of electronics to be dump is creating a lot of harm, not only in the consumer’s pocket, but also in the environment. The manufacturing and dumping cycle for electronics damage our planet. It all starts when the manufacturing companies get the natural resources needed to build the electronics from our planet, damaging it in the process. Then they are transported to other parts of the world which burns fuels that harm our environment. This electronics are manufactured with toxic chemicals, like PVC and mercury. This concerning because this materials stay on the devices while the consumers use them.

The other issue, is that the consumer gets tired of the electronic relatively fast and then dumps it. After the electronics are dumped, they are usually burned, releasing toxic gases into the environment.

All this issue occurs because the big companies want to increase profits and minimize costs by disregarding all the damage they incur in their employees and the environment. I believe the best way to address this situation and save our planet is to regulate this big companies and require them to comply with strict environmental regulations.

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I chose the question: "Given the environmental implications discussed, what steps can society take to transition from fossil fuels to more sustainable energy sources? Discuss potential challenges and solutions."

After I am a faced with a challenge, the first thing that comes to my mind is to look for a solution to that problem. After learning about all the environmental problems caused by the utilization of non-renewable fossil fuels, I ask myself the question "how can we find a solution". For that reason, I chose that very important question quoted previously. In order for us to find a solution to many of our environmental adversities, we need to find more sustainable energy sources. Using more sustainable sources would reduce the use of fossil fuels which are not beneficial for our planet.

However, answering the question is not an easy task. There are many other options for more sustainable energy sources, the challenge comes when the solutions are not widely viable. For example, using solar panels is a great alternative for energy, the problem comes in zones where sunlight is not usual and the solar panels stop being functional.