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Hello!

My name is Gabriela, I'm 20 years old and I'm from Puerto Rico. I moved to Florida back in 2013 i believe, so almost 10 years.

A fun fact about me is that I learned all of the countries flags and I’m learning the territories flags. I haven’t practiced them in awhile but I’m confident I remember them. It took me about two weeks to learn them all. Another fun fact about me is that I change my hairstyle and hair color often. Ive been dyeing my hair since 2017. The first hair color I had was red tips and the most recent was a light pink with light blue streaks scattered around. My favourite hair color, and style, I had was a half blonde half brown wolfcut! Ive been wanting to go back to that hair color but it was a bit difficult to maintain but I looked so cool. 🤭

I really like listening to music. I would give any genre a chance so if anyone has any recommendations, I will definitely give them a listen. :)

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A section that caught my attention in the lecture is the part where the speaker mentions the forms of energy used to power electricity. The speaker mentions fossil fuels as the main source. Coal, Oil, and Natural gas, which contain energy from plants long ago that stored in the form of carbon. But those are non renewable and global demand is rising and resources are limited. Though there are other ways to generate electricity. Renewable energy sources like wind, water, geothermal and biofuels can be used to generate electricity.

What caught my attention as well is when the speaker said that the access to energy impacts other factors in daily life. It was also mentioned that we should improve our energy efficiency and responsibly use natural resources to improve life quality. I think that's a great idea to use the renewable sources instead of burning toxic fumes into our atmosphere. With how the population grows, more and more of the energy is needed and thus more fumes will be released making life harder for future generations.

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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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The video I watched from the nine we could choose from is "Jack Black explores Miami's Climate and Sea-Rise Challenge". In the video Jack Black starts with him meeting scientist Nicole Hernandez Hammer who left academia to become an activist. Jack Black and Hernandez go on to walk around a low income neighborhood that is flooded and they talk about why that is. Hernandez states that it is because of high tides. Jack is confused because they are miles from the ocean and Hernandez says its water that comes up from the pourous limestone underground. That water carries up whatever is underground like septic tanks or things from auto shops like oil and it all collects on the roads where kids can splash around in. Hernandez continues to say that people don't know this occurs because of climate change, they chalk it up to a broken pipe or poor infrastructure. Jack says its toxic or a biohazard which Hernandez agrees with. Jack then asks if this was brought to the attention of state officials or the governor and Hernandez says that it has but that they act like they didn't hear a thing.

This video was very informational and concerning. I personally didn't know floods happened like that to that level without rain. I also found it concerning that the governor or state officials know about such a thing and completely ignore it. They are basically waiting for Miami to be completely flooded before they consider doing anything to even help.

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Jack Black Explores Miami's Climate and Sea-Rise Challenge

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In this lecture we learn that humans have the power to destroy ourselves but also help ourselves. In the lecture the speaker speaks about some of the ways humans have created, or can create, a human catastrophe leading to our demise. From engineered pandemics to climate change, humans are the main cause of the possibility of human extinction. The speaker goes into detail of some of the ways we humans are causing existential risks and how we can possibly shrink the chances of said risks from happening. This lecture was intriguing to me because i agree that humans are the main cause of our own demise. Everyday theres a new action that results in climate change to happen faster and yet people dont listen and continue to do it because 'im just one more person doing it how bad can it possibly be'. In the lecture the speaker says that a few degrees are expected to drop but its not said exactly how many. Those degrees dropping can cause other calamities to start happening. In the end its all up to human control because we as humans have the choice to do the action.

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The 4 greatest threats to the survival of humanity

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The video i watched from the multiple given was "If you think fast fashion is bad, check out SHEIN." This video talks about SHEIN and its damage to the environment and how they got so big in the first place. Popular influencers are given brand deals to advertise or "put the word out" for SHEIN and that's a way they got so popular. Another way they got popular is with TikTok. Individuals will do Haul videos of what they got on SHEIN and post it under the hashtag #SHEINHAUL which creates more traction for the site. SHEIN targets young women, with cheap products from $30 to as cheap as $8 its perfect for young people with insufficient funds to buy good quality items. To get these items to be so cheap the factories in Guangzhou, China abuse their workers and don't pay them the proper amount or at all. A journalist named Wu Peiyue went to the SHEIN production site and found that they hire temporary workers that work from smaller factories or house workshops.

I personally never got the hype of SHEIN and online stores. i do understand people yearn to possess things and for as cheap as some of the items are its great deal but if its a one-use item i don't see the point. I would rather save up to get one good item than have to buy multiple of an item because its bad quality. Since its a bad quality item, it gets trashed as soon as it breaks which just adds to the green house emmisions the fashion industry is responsible for.

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If you think fast fashion is bad, check out SHEIN

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Raising Awareness About Environmental Issues

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Raising Awareness About Environmental Issues

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The lecture that caught my attention from the multiple given is "Alaskan Native Elders Tell Their Climate Change Story." What drew my attention to this lecture is that i always see news from Alaska and how climate change is changing their hunting habits and how they have to adapt to the new changes.

In this lecture it starts off with a man named Jerry Ivanoff, a commercial fisherman and hunter in Unalakleet, Alaska, explaining his childhood and what he remembers from his land. Ivanoff states that he fears for the future generations for the lack of ice and snow and its affects on the animals and fish they depend on. In the lecture they show the Artic report Card Workshop in Nome, Alaska. They explain that it is a opportunity for the indigenous people along the Bering Sea Coast to share their experiences with the impacts brought on by climate change. A scientist stated that for the Arctic Report they used to bring in one or two indigenous experts but now they are including more indigenous people to say their experiences.

The main idea i got from the lecture is that we all have to come together to stop climate change from changing the arctic to where animals can't survive. Without those animals, the indigenous people on that land will not be able to survive.

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Alaskan Native Elders Tell Their Climate Change Story | After the Ice

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it seemed difficult to do.. i apologize, i didn't do this assignment.