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https://unfoundation.org/blog/post/5-global-issues-to-watch-in-2020/

( 4. CRISES ON THE BRINK: CONFLICT, PEACE, AND HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE)

The refugee crisis remains another important problem.
Through this violence and crime has increased. Therefore I think this topic is also important. People need support because of climate change and international conflicts. We have to help and protect these people, especially as the numbers of those affected continue to rise, so that they don‘t have the need to flee. For me personally, peace is a key word in 2020. Because that makes us human.
(Look at the article)

-Lara Gelke

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The next exercise I have set is about consumerism (See Moodle). Here is a cartoon to get you started. (Mr.K)

You can start to think how much you are involved in our consumerist society, especially at this time when our consumerist habits have changed because of our isolation at home.

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I would also like to add a cartoon to the Corona Virus because I think this cartoon clearly shows how quickly the virus spreads. It also clearly shows that we are trying to stop the virus, but so far we have not been able to.
Here is the link for the cartoon :https://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/imgs/93/7/4/9/2/8/9/2/5/tok_804613d93a6cb623d02d133f4d82bf2d/w865_h623_x432_y311_karikatur270120-5a25d43b95edc558.jpg

Greetings and i hope you all stay well! Rebecca

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https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/15-07-2019-world-hunger-is-still-not-going-down-after-three-years-and-obesity-is-still-growing-un-report
This is a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) about “world hunger”. I think this topic should be mentioned as well. Worldwide more than 820 million people are suffering from hunger, while the number of obese people are increasing.
-Nisa Nur Günes

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https://euobserver.com/coronavirus/147834 Today, the Hungarian parliament has accepted the bill. In my opinion, we must decrease the danger of the Corona virus but this must not legitimize the end of democracy....
-Kristina

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( Investing in Health for an Equitable Future)

As you can see the problems that the 3rd world countries are facing, and especially now that the corona virus is spreading, this article highlights the issues that the UN is trying to deal with, before the virus even struck.
The health situation in theses countries is far behind that of the western world. That‘s why it‘s a global challenge to help them out of poverty.
They need support on all issues besides finances. They need technological support etc. ( Look in the article)

-Lara Gelke

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Cartoon in terms of the effect of the corona virus on people

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Cartoon in terms of the effect of the corona virus on people

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Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror (Official Video)

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Hey, I‘m sorry that I have not reported yet.
So I found the cartoon from Amina very interesting and then looked for more on the subject of the corona virus.
Personally, I find this somewhat difficult to interpret.
In my opinion it shows very well how the virus affects the whole world and how we react to it. It makes you think a lot.
To come back to Amina‘s cartoon:
I think it describes our current situation exactly.
Jobs that were previously considered „degrading“ in the population have suddenly become the most important and are indispensable.
I have great respect for those wo currently have to work in our current situation and in such circumstances.

I hope all of us stay healthy and maybe see us after the easter holidays?...
LG Maja Krämer

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/28/power-equality-nationalism-how-the-pandemic-will-reshape-the-world

I found this article while browsing the web and thought this was a good place to share it. It shows how Covid-19 may not kill the entire human race but it will potentially reshape the world.

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Another aspect I want to talk about is the rise of xenophobia and racism especially towards Asian people which is sad to see. Many Asian people were discriminated against because everyone thinks they are infected with the virus.  Not every Asian person has the virus. The Corona virus is not an excuse to be racist. Here is also an article from The Guardian I've found which I think sums up the situation.
Especially the last sentence is of great importance:
“We have to acknowledge everyone’s humanity at this time because the virus doesn’t know race or color,” Chou said.

-Amina

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hen Rosalind Chou was on a flight at the end of February, she saw a woman in front of her raise her phone up high, as if taking a selfie. The woman snapped a picture and sent it to a friend, whose reply showed up in big font on the woman's phone: "Oh no, is he Chinese?"

Across the aisle from Chou was a man she later learned is Korean American and a woman sitting next to him, also of Asian descent. The woman quickly replied to her friend: "There's a lot of them. Pray for me."

Chou knows her experience was not an anomaly. Across the US, Chinese Americans, and other Asians, are increasingly living in fear as the coronavirus spreads across the country amid racial prejudice that the outbreak is somehow the fault of China. It is a fear grounded in racism, but also promoted from the White House as Donald Trump - and his close advisers - insist on calling it "the Chinese virus".

"This is becoming more widespread," said Chou, an associate professor of sociology at Georgia State University. "My fear is coughing in public, coughing while Asian, and the reaction other people will have."

The last few weeks has seen a rise in racist incidents and comments directed toward Asian Americans tied to fears of coronavirus.

Last week Trump started to refer to Covid-19 as the Chinese virus.

"The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese virus. We will be stronger than ever before!" read one tweet on 16 March, the first time he referred to the illness as "Chinese virus" online.

It comes from China, that's why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate

Donald Trump

Trump's use of the phrase sparked a chorus of criticism. Professional basketball player Jeremy Lin told Trump on Twitter that he should be instead supporting vulnerable people, "including those that will be affected by the racism you're empowering". Author Celeste Ng noted on Twitter that "Asians worldwide are facing actual harassment because of people who insist on calling the illness the Chinese virus".

Trump doubled down on the name at a press conference on Wednesday, insisting that using the term is not racist. "It comes from China, that's why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate," Trump said.

Trump has received support from his allies who have defended the president for giving coronavirus a new name. "China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that ... that's why China has been a source of a lot of these viruses," John Cornyn, a Republican senator from Texas, told a reporter when asked if the name was inappropriate.

Trump's new name for coronavirus comes after weeks of racist attacks against Asian American seen across the country. An Asian woman in New York City wearing a face mask was assaulted and called "diseased" in early February by a stranger in a subway station. In Los Angeles, a man directed a racist rant about coronavirus to a fellow passenger, who is Asian.

One family in Fresno, California, had their car tagged with the word "Fuck Asions ... and coronavirus". A middle school student in California was told by his teacher to go to the nurse's office after he coughed, though he told his teacher that he choked on water and was not sick. When he asked his teacher why he didn't ask non-Asian students to go to the nurse after coughing, he was told to "let it go and move on".

"The increasing frequency [in incidents] is something we have to take seriously," said Gregg Orton, national director of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA). "Racial scapegoating is the exact opposite response we want to see from leaders of our country."

NCAPA led a group of 260 civil rights organizations in sending a call to Congress to denounce anti-Asian racism around coronavirus. The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus sent a letter to their fellow members of Congress urging them to share verifiable information about the illness given the misconceptions about national origin and the spread of the virus.

Asian American history scholars point out there is a long history of anti-Asian discrimination in America that gives precedent to racist attacks against Asian Americans because of coronavirus.

"Close from the very beginning, Chinese immigrants were seen as inferior, filthy and diseased," said Claire Jean Kim, a professor of political science and Asian American studies at the University of California at Irvine. When Chinese immigrants came to America in 1870, they were painted as a threat to the white working class, leading to racist attacks and segregation. Chinatowns were seen as filthy and full of scum.

The increasing frequency [in incidents] is something we have to take seriously

Gregg Orton

"What is being accomplished by using this kind of language?" Kim said. "We're being misled about what causes pandemics and how to possibly prevent them or reduce their severity in the future. That's the kind of conversation that we need to be having."

There is also a history of leaders painting those in an outsider group as diseased, evoking fear and often violence in their followers toward that group of people, said Susan Benesch, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.

Benesch coined the term "dangerous speech": rhetoric that is used to turn one group of people violently against another. That Chinese people are unhygienic and unsanitary is a "very old feature" of dangerous speech against Chinese in America.

"It's not really hatred that is the most operative emotion regarding [dangerous speech], it's fear. Fear is what makes people turn violently against another group of people more than hatred," Benesch said. "The level of fear is so great around this epidemic."

As the coronavirus and its effects appear to be long-lasting, advocates in the Asian American community emphasize the importance of speaking up and calling out any racist remarks, when the environment is safe.

"We have to acknowledge everyone's humanity at this time because the virus doesn't know race or color," Chou said.

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The cartoon show at first the credibility of the virus. First of all the virus and the whole situation wasn't taken serious enough until it was too late. To be more in detail, on the social media, like instagram, every meme-page made fun of the virus until, the statistics showed the increasing rate of the death people. I have choosen the cartoon because of the plot twist and that i can relate to the cartoon.
Berkan Ersoy

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I've seen this on Instagram a few days ago and because we talked about the Windrush accident in class, this caught my eye. I think that this caricature doesn't only appeal to the "Windrush babies" (as the woman as called in the picture) but to many many people that have a migration background. It is quite funny to me how so many depend on people with migration background without realising it and still they do not want them in their country. But once a calamity strikes them where they are in need of everything, they are practically begging them to stay (as seen in the picture below).
Another point is that the UK has reportedly appologised to the Windrush victims but still nothing has changed. The migrants are not welcomed, they can feel that but still cannot do anything against that. They live with the feeling of being in a wrong place and not being part of a society.

-Amina

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here is another Cartoon which illustrates the doctors, who are running away from the corona virus, which is coming out of the planet and is bigger than the people in the cartoon, and the one guy, running towards the virus. He seems to stand for the government, because of the bucket for money. Best regards Berkan ------- i will add more cartoons to let you think about them.

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Corona
I think the Corona crisis is really shaken at the moment. Nevertheless, it does not only bring negative aspects with it. In my opinion, at least I appreciate a lot more, that you can be happy to have a healthy family, a house over your head and that everyone is fine. You can tell that we lived in our society in luxury and could always meet when and how we want it. Because of this situation, we really only need to stay together. Lg Maxi Ziegler

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Article: The long-term effect of world’s worst nuclear accident is less damaging than everyday human activity, say scientists.

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Article: The long-term effect of world’s worst nuclear accident is less damaging than everyday human activity, say scientists.

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Wildlife is abundant around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, despite the presence of radiation released by the world's most catastrophic nuclear explosion nearly three decades ago, researchers have found.

The number of elk, deer and wild boar within the Belarusian half of the Chernobyl exclusion zone today are around the same as those in four nearby uncontaminated nature reserves.

Wolves, which are commonly hunted in the region because of their impact on livestock, were seven times as abundant with the zone, according to a study published on Monday.

The findings run counter to previous hypothesises that chronic long-term exposure to radiation would hit animal populations.

"What we do, our everyday habitation of an area - agriculture, forestry - they've damaged wildlife more than the world's worst nuclear accident," said Prof Jim Smith, professor of environmental science, University of Portsmouth, and one of the paper's authors.

"It doesn't say that nuclear accidents aren't bad, of course they are. But it illustrates that the things we do everyday, the human population pressure, damages the environment. It's kind of obvious but it's an amazing illustration of it."

The explosion of reactor four on 26 April 1986 killed dozens of plant staff and rescue workers, and led to high radiation doses in the first weeks and months that had significant effects on animal health and reproduction around Chernobyl.

But after analysing previously unpublished animal track records and aerial surveys from Belarusian authorities and scientists, the authors of the study, which was published in the journal Current Biology, found no long-term impact to population numbers from the radiation released by the accident.

"Chernobyl caused a lot of human damage. The social and economical problems were huge. If you set that aside - if you can set that aside - it's hard to argue that it's really damaged the ecosystem as a whole," said Smith.

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Wild boar in a former village in the exclusion zone. Photograph: Valeriy Yurko/University of Portsmouth

The number of animals was probably lower before the nuclear accident than now, because the area was relatively developed, with industry, agriculture and hunting. While it was possible that radiation still had some negative effects on animals it was not enough to affect their populations, Smith said.

But Anders Pape Møller of the University of Paris-Sud questioned why the data had gone unpublished for decades and argued the rebound in populations was simply a sign of wildlife doing better across Europe.

Chernobyl animal numbers

"Big mammals have been increasing for the last decades in most of Europe. So Chernobyl is no different. The interesting question is whether the increase in Chernobyl is larger than say in Germany, France or Scandinavia," he told the Guardian.

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Baby spotted eagle in Chernobyl exclusion zone. Photograph: Valeriy Yurko/University of Portsmouth

Møller, who has researched the region since 1991 and published papers on the negative impact of radiation on insects and birds at Chernobyl, said there was no reason to expect differences between different types of animals.

The researchers analysed a 2,165 sq km (836 sq miles) area of the exclusion zone in Belarus, known as Polesie State Radioecological Reserve (PSRER), looking at data since 1986 on the abundance of elk, roe deer, red deer and wild boar. Species that have been sighted or reintroduced to the area since the accident but were not found there previously, such as European bison and lynx, were not included.
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Wildlife thriving around Chernobyl nuclear plant despite radiation

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Wildlife is abundant around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, despite the presence of radiation released by the world's most catastrophic nuclear explosion nearly three decades ago, researchers have found. The number of elk, deer and wild boar within the Belarusian half of the Chernobyl exclusion zone today are around the same as those in four nearby uncontaminated nature reserves.

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This Song by Micheal Jackson might be old, but most of it still applies to today. -ÖS (Although Micheal had / still has some controversy, his songs nearly always dealt with some kind of issue in the world.)

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Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror (Official Video)

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„Positive“ effect of the Corona virus here (if you can even dare to say something was positive about the Corona crisis, so do not take this too seriously): the industry is stopped for some time, so there are much less greenhouse gas emissions as you could see in satellite images of the air above China in the last couple of weeks ;)
- Kristina

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(I’m sorry, I messed up the posting stuff. This is a reply to the comments on Greta Thunberg.)

I think Greta did an excellent job raising awareness for the climate change. I think the issue would not have become so big and popular as it is today without her. She started off the strikes that lead to global and political attention which is so important to make a change. However, I think that she cannot do anything anymore currently. Now it is up to every single one of us and especially up to the politicans to make a change in their politics because they are the ones that can make a difference faster than anybody else can on their own. Nevertheless, of course everyone should wonder what we can do to make a difference individually.

- Kristina

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This song by the Australian band Midnight Oil was released in 1987.

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The opening pages of the novel The Carbon Diaries (click "Look Inside") are worth a look, as are the reviews left by readers and the blurb posted by Amazon.

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Character types in disaster movies and the Corona virus

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For reasons I don't need to spell out, I've been thinking a lot about disaster movies recently. I had to leave my home yesterday, something I - a deeply lazy person - avoid even in the healthiest of times, and it really was extraordinary how cinematic London was looking. Being American, London always looks cinematic to me, but on this occasion it seemed a lot more 28 Days Later than Mary Poppins. Public transport was so empty that when a busker came into the train carriage it was just him singing Send In The Clowns directly to me, an audience of one. It was simultaneously the most romantic/awkward thing that has ever happened to me, and I was so moved/mortified that I gave him a fiver and rushed back to the safety of home, like everyone else.

As a teenager of the 90s, I grew up watching disaster movies. Some people (my parents) might have thought that all those hours spent at the Odeon with Armageddon, Twister, Titanic and (perhaps most pertinently) Outbreak were yet more grains of sand of my life that I was merrily chucking into the void. In fact, I was nobly preparing myself for this moment. Disaster films teach us that, even while the world becomes scary and unmanageable, there are only half a dozen types of people, and there is something deeply reassuring about that predictability, now more than ever. So ask yourself: which disaster movie cliche do you want to be?

The noble scientist nobody listens to (until it is almost too late)
Probably the best character to be in a disaster movie, whether they are the actual lead (Dustin Hoffman in Outbreak, Dennis Quaid in The Day After Tomorrow) or a slightly secondary character, probably played by Jeff Goldblum. Alas, now every idiot with a conspiracy theory and access to social media thinks they are the noble scientist. But unless you are an actual scientist, you absolutely aren't.

The stoic grande dame
The feisty no-nonsense person who stays calm while all the blethering fools around her collapse into hysteria: this is who we should all aim to be, but only up to a point. Any older person who insists they survived the Blitz so a cough won't bring them down thinks they are the stoic grande dame, but they are fast crossing over into "idiot who dies an idiotic death" territory (see below). Grandes dames stay calm, but also stay sensible. After all, sometimes they survive (Kathy Bates in Titanic), sometimes they don't (Elizabeth Hoffman in Dante's Peak); but they always retain their dignity.

The idiot who dies an idiotic death
In my head, I'm the stoic grande dame; in my heart, I know I'm the idiot, too busy looking at my phone to notice the meteor heading straight to Earth. This character is rarely given a name and is usually knocked off in the opening 20 minutes, right after insisting there's nothing to worry about. Related to him is the character known as "obnoxious pen-pusher with really bad advice", who tells everyone not to listen to the good advice and ends up getting himself and/or others killed. The fools in The Poseidon Adventure who scoff at Gene Hackman's ideas for getting out of the sinking ship are the classic examples; but Amity's mayor in Jaws is probably the best known, keeping the beach open even as tourists are turned into chum. It was widely reported that in 2006 Boris Johnson cited Mayor Vaughn as "the real hero of Jaws". But it's best to make like the stoic grande dame and not think too much about that.
I didn't love Taika Waititi's movie, but I feel his shoulder - and back, and neck - pain | Hadley Freeman
The disgraced (or divorced) person who needs redemption
Do you have an awkward past? Then this, my friend, is your moment. Think of Al the cop in Die Hard ( Reginald V elJohnson), who gets over that whole accidentally-killed-a-child unpleasantness by helping Bruce Willis knock off Alan Rickman and save the Nakatomi Corporation. Die Hard (like Twister) also shows that, while a big disaster might have its downsides, it is a terrific way to convince your ex-wife to give you another chance. Willis's not only falls into his arms at the end, but finally agrees to forgo her annoying feminist principles by taking his surname. Um, hurrah!

The k id with moxie (and doomed dog)
While every disaster movie needs an everyman hero, every hero needs a plucky moppet to scramble through awkward small entrances and do some clever eavesdropping on malicious politicians (Independence Day, The War Of The Worlds). Kids always survive, but their dogs, alas, have only about a 50/50 chance (RIP Pogo, in Attack The Block).

The noble president
No matter how bad or chaotic the disaster, as long as we have someone calm and steady in the White House, we will be fine: think of Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact, Bill Pullman in Independence Day, Harrison Ford in Air Force One (not quite a disaster film, but it will do). So, good president = good outcome. We're all doomed.
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I grew up watching disaster movies. Here's what I've learned | Hadley Freeman

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For reasons I don't need to spell out, I've been thinking a lot about disaster movies recently. I had to leave my home yesterday, something I - a deeply lazy person - avoid even in the healthiest of times, and it really was extraordinary how cinematic London was looking.