billion in damages and control costs in the United States each year, conservatively. About a quarter of that damage happens in Texas. Eighty-three-year-old rancher and farmer Jackie Brister farms about 3,000 acres in Bend, Texas, mostly pecans and wheat. But nowadays, he also battles feral swine. He guessed the damage could be close to $100,000 a year because feral hogs eat anything: They love Brister’s wheat and trample even more of it when they’re rooting around for his fallen pecans.

The government yesterday invited people to respond in a six week public consultation on the Zero Carbon Bill. This aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The document wants public reaction to three alternative targets, and only one of them brings all greenhouse gases equally into the greenhouse fight.

The one that really blow me away was Shocking images show mountains of plastic and rubbish polluting rivers in India, Philippines and Vietnam, because my parents and their families lived in Vietnam and I didn’t really know the extent of the pollution and littering until I read and saw the pictures in this article. I learned that there was trash all over the roads and in their waterways, but especially in India. The article showed a man living in India in his forties collecting trash such as metal for an occupation, and it made me realize how bad it actually was. There was images of children my age and younger swimming in the water filled with discolored water and trash floating everywhere in it. It made me realize how lucky I was to be privileged with the things I have today. Many of the people living in these countries don't know the bad health effects of pollution and littered items. After reading this article I want to be able to educate others about these living conditions.

I learned a lot about World Environment Day in  Innovations to Beat  Plastic Pollution on display at World Environment Day Exhibition. At first, I didn't know what that day was about until I actually read the article. I learned that there was a five day exhibition happening in India to discuss plastics, and the effects it has on the world. It featured dialogue series, information booths and high-level discussions focused on the various facets of plastic, from its many irreplaceable uses in industries like construction, the medical field, and the food industry, to the issue of single-use plastics and the need for sustainable alternatives.  

The last article, Taj Mahal takes aim at Plastic Pollution, was the most interesting to me, because I enjoyed learning about how India’s leadership is going to decrease the amount of plastic pollution at the Taj Mahal and 100 other monuments in India. I liked reading about the ways they are decreasing the plastic pollution around these monuments such as have a 500 meter barrier of litter free around the Taj Mahal itself. I loved the part especially how they are educating tourists and many of the people living there about the proper ways of recycling and disposing of the trash instead of littering. They had even started a campaign ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ which I thought was incredible. This had caused me to want to educate others in my lives on the effects of plastic pollution and ways to overcome it.

Although littering and pollution is starting to take over the many areas of the world, many of its people are learning ways to clean up and help the environment. Not only  did reading these three articles educate me in these topics, but t helped discover what was going in other countries beside of my own. It has caused me to want to educate myself further and others.  I want others to be able to learn, and help the environment around them, because soon we won't be able to have it for much longer if we continue to litter and pollute the only Earth we have. I want to show others that we can fix our mistakes by cleaning up one area at a time even if we’re starting off small such as our own community.