https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8 Made with a dash of wit en-us 2019-10-23 21:29:45 UTC 2019-12-04 22:48:37 UTC hello@padlet.com jacobo_navarro744 https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/401742421 This Article talks about the White House suing California for over stepping their authority on making agreements internationally with Quebec, Canada. In 2013 California and Canada came into an agreement of regulating gas emissions and polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gasses. The Cap-and-trade agreement caps the amount of pollution California can make causing companies to reduce pollution standards or if they pass the cap, they have to buy state auctioned permits that allows them to pollute. The Trump administration claims that this agreement can come between the Presidents future ability to negotiate with other countries. 
This article shows how politics can come between environmental factors. California wants to reduce pollution and Trump administration cares more about the political leverage they have, even though we all live on this earth and we have to take accountability for our actions.]]> 2019-10-23 21:32:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/401742421 jacobo_navarro744 https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418832536 This article talks about how China will be adding ethanol fuel into their gasoline which is currently all petrol fuel. China has the most cars on the road which is 332 million cars. China will be importing vast quantities of ethanol fuel from brazil, they have a very big market for ethanol fuel there. Environmentalists are optimistic on adding ethanol fuel to Chinese petrol and will cut greenhouse gas emissions. Although it will be great for the environment in some ways, their will be consequences because the biofuel industry requires large maize and sugarcane plantations that can encroach on forests. 
This is a tricky situation because China integrating ethanol fuel into their market reduces fossil fuel, on the flip side the production of corn and cane sugar can damage forests. The WTO is working on taking away tariffs for the exports from Brazil to China, but what we see here is a good attempt to make the environment better and reduce global warming.]]> 2019-12-03 01:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418832536 jacobo_navarro744 https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418835059 This Article is about Russia and China installing a nature gas pipeline that sends natural gas from a Siberian gas field to a city in northeastern China. The deal is worth $400 billion and was started in 2014. The goal is to make it bigger and longer eventually terminating in Shanghai. That would be a span of more than 5,000 miles, joining 1,864 mile section in Russia with 3,176 miles stretch in China. This will improve on China using more natural gas. There is also a 30-year energy agreement stated that relies on a push to convert China's border city of Heihe from coal to gas. This will minimize greenhouse emotions and will benefit the environment. "Heihe has registered 30,000 households for switching to natural gas for heating". Because parts of china rely on coal as a primary source to create heat, the natural gas pipeline from Russia will really benefit them. 
We see her how global countries and trade can be beneficial for the future of improvement. This works both ways because it is better for the environment. I can see how depending on huge projects like these could lead for chaos, but looking at the bright side the Russian natural gas can really benefit China.]]> 2019-12-03 01:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418835059 jacobo_navarro744 https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418836829 This article talks about how the Trump administration recently signed a deal with Honduras to send people seeking asylum in the U.S to Honduras. People coming from Venezuela, from Nicaragua, from Cuba, from other places in south America will be sent back. It was shocking to find that also people immigrating from outside the American continent like people from Bangladesh, India, West Africa or East Africa. Honduras has one of the highest crime rates in the world, there is a lot of gang violence. People from Honduras have been trying to flee the country because they are sick of it not being safe. Trump administration says that the president of Honduras is great although Honduran people say otherwise. 
This article shows how people in the global south are always trying to migrate and look for a better life; what happens when they are rejected? people are sent back or just sent to a place nothing like the U.S. ]]> 2019-12-03 01:33:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418836829 jacobo_navarro744 https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418840082 This Article talks about the migration situation between Mexico and the United States. This is an important topic to me because I have seen many immigrants in San Diego that cross from Tijuana Mexico to the United States. The article highlights that president Trump threatens Mexico that he is going to put tariffs if they don't do anything about the 100,000 immigrants flowing into the United States. Mexico claims that they have been doing everything in there power to capture and deport a lot of immigrants coming from south America and other places. The president of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador explains that they have been and currently acting upon it, the thing is that a lot of immigrants goal is to not stay in Mexico but to continue all the way to the United States. Also they don't have enough resources and men to deal with all the amount of immigrants as well as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants to deal with the migrant situation in a humane way. 
This article really highlights how immigration is a big deal. The amount of people involved are so many but as well as counties. The United States really sells the American Dream, and people really do go on and try to obtain it. ]]> 2019-12-03 01:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418840082 jacobo_navarro744 https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418841197 This article talks about how the effects of global warming have put the city of Venice in a difficult situation. This November the floodwaters in Venice have done a lot of damage, more than in the last 50 years. This has caused a lot of people who live in Venice to flee, Venice risks becoming an empty shell sinking under mass tourism. The future of Venice doesn't look good either,  a city that for over a thousand years has built a wonderful equilibrium between a human component, ecological component, art, nature. And in the last century, we have basically almost destroyed that balance. Global warming is a cause of mass production and mass pollution. The consequences are clearly being seen in Venice. 
In class we talk about how the globally we have been causing global change, it is very sad to see a place like Venice going under water because of the world being carless of the ecosystem and environment. In the next years there are going to be a lot of researchers seeing how we can change the way we have been going. Venice is a place I would love to visit before it disappears.]]> 2019-12-03 01:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418841197 jacobo_navarro744 https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418841468 This article talks about Mexican security forces killed seven  members of a presumed cartel assault force that rolled into a town near the Texas border a day earlier and staged an hourlong attack, officials said, bringing the death toll to at least 20. Cartels have been vying for control of smuggling routes in northern Mexico, the violence and crime rate is rising. The United States and Mexico border has always been a dangerous place, the location is a strategic point for cartels and drug lords in Mexico, doing deals with their connection in the United States. President Trump announced that he wants to declare cartels as a terrorist threat, the president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador has not yet seen to act on this rising of violence. Federal officials said recently that there have been 29,414 homicides so far in 2019. 
This is a huge deal and priority for Mexico to start acting on the increasing violence because this example was very close to the United States. In class we see how global south countries struggle with mass amount of violence and crime, the call for action is that Mexico needs more resources to tackle on big problems like these. The border is a sticky situation, not only organized crime but also mass amount of immigrants.  ]]> 2019-12-03 01:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418841468 jacobo_navarro744 https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418841806 This article talks about the Crop Trust project. An international team of researchers that have spent six years going across the globe, gathering thousands of samples of wild relatives of crops. Their goal is to preserve genetic diversity that could help key crops survive in the face of climate change. More than 100 scientists in 25 countries have been out to collect wild relatives of domesticated crops like lentils, potatoes, chickpeas and rice. These are crops that people rely on around the world the overall goal of the Crop Trust project is to make sure that this kind of valuable genetic diversity is preserved in seed banks before wild crop relatives disappear as urban development encroaches on once wild habitats. 
It is such a beautiful topic to read about when the world of researchers are leaving boundaries and borders behind to come together and do something great and important. The goal of Crop Trust project is crucial for the people that grow their crops as well as the simple crops we eat everyday. In class we learn about farmers being undercut and world hunger, but if we do more projects to save and help humanity, the world will be globalized in a better way. Seeing this really makes me analyze how the world needs more projects like these.]]> 2019-12-03 01:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jacobo_navarro744/dg9imc1p5py8/wish/418841806