After watching this video, I realise some Pokemon are actually very similar to some real animals. But it is sad that they are endangered because of hunting and habitat loss. The next generation will have no chance to meet them unless we conserve these animals. To save the endangered animals, I think we can start from learning more about the endangered species around Asia and teach our friends and family to protect these animals. Also, people should stop hunting the endangered species for food and fur. 

Will you protect the endangered species? 

When we talk about food waste, our attention is normally focused on the food 

that we throw into our bins; but food waste is bigger than that. Food waste is included any edible and inedible food item meant for human consumption which for one reason or other is discarded to become waste . Food waste occurs at different points along the food supply chain, mainly at the retail and consumption stages in high income countries and the farm gate in low-income countries.
My comment 
Food waste occurs all over the world, it is a problem because it amounts to wasting money and huge amount of scarce resources like soil nutrients, water, land, biodiversity, packing and processing resources, energy used for producing food. Food waste has negative consequences for social and environmental sustainability . It has been estimated that globally,  about 1.3 billion tons  of food  is wasted annually . In UK, this is over 15 million  tonnes .Yet food insecurity persists in several countries, with an estimated 795 million people undernourished globally. Even in the advanced countries, food insecurity exists among some households in deprived communities. Therefore food waste has become a hot political topic .

The fundamental problem with food waste is that ‘Waste’ is embedded in the current food regime. In one sense, food is too expensive for some and in another, it is too cheap . A contradiction difficult to be resolved. Our food system is based on industrialised food production, and waste is locked in the system.  Food waste only brings the inefficiencies to the surface. Therefore, we should stop wasting food to save human being , and also our world.

The Western diet could be to blame.

Over the past two decades, China's prevailing diet has shifted away from grains like rice and wheat in favor of richer animal proteins and a wider variety of exotic vegetables. As Bloomberg reports, this change has left the country short of land on which to grow produce and raise livestock.

While the Western diet typically demands about one acre per person, China has only 0.2 acres to devote to feeding each citizen. Meanwhile, the country consumes 50% of the world's total pork supply.

"The rapid rate of industrialization in China is really chewing up crop land at an alarming rate," Lester Brown, founder and president of the Earth Institute, told Reuters. "China is now losing cropland."

In an effort to meet the growing appetite for new foods, the country has turned its attention outward. But the solution isn't as simple as importing more food from abroad — unless the world begins accommodating food production for 9 billion people. Instead, the Chinese government has started leasing farms in North and South America, Australia, and Africa. In some cases, it has bought the land outright.

 

This video talks about the food problem in India.India has been facing food problems since long period. The people in India is facing the big problem—hunger everyday.In India famine,there was nearly 3.5 million people died out of starvation.Theere was 3000 children died because of the food problem which related to illness.

My reflection:

After watching this video,I have learnt several things.I have learnt that the children in Hong Kong is very lucky.We don’t have to face the food problem or famine.We don’t have to face hunger.We can have enough food and drinks everyday.We don’t need to worry about food.However,as we don’t need to worry about food,the food waste problem in Hong Kong is very seroius.People in Hong Kong waste lots of food everyday.There is approximately 3,640 tonnes food waste produced in Hong Kong every day.We are lucky that we don’t need to face the food problem.But we shouldn’t waste food.In order to reducing food waste,we should stop wasting food and reduction at Source.So that we can reduce the amount of food waste.Moreover,I have learnt that the food policy in India is poor.The population of India is increasing at a very high rate. The annual average growth rate of population in India has declined slightly from -2.5 per cent during the decade 1961-71 and 1971-81 to 2.1 percent in 1981-91 and then to 1.9 per cent in 1991-2001.It shows that the population growth in India increased in a hight rate.In India, the farm consumption of foodgrains is increasing with the increase in agricultural output. Thus, due to this increasing home consumption the marketable surplus of foodgrains could not increase substantially.This is a important reason that caused the food problem in India too.In order to solve the food problem in India,the government can provide more irrigation facilities.It can promote family planning programmes too.Also,the government should bann over black marketing of food.

 

 

 

 

                     Water is the foundation of life. And still today, all around the world, far too many people spend their entire day searching for it.

                       In places like sub-Saharan Africa, time lost gathering water and suffering from water-borne diseases is limiting people's true potential, especially women and girls.

Education is lost to sickness. Economic development is lost while people merely try to survive. But it doesn't have to be like this. It's needless suffering.

                       And we have a water scarcity now.  WHAT IS WATER SCARCITY? Water scarcity is Simply put, water scarcity is either the lack of enough water (quantity) or lack of access to safe water (quality). It's hard for most of us to imagine that clean, safe water is not something that can be taken for granted. But, in the developing world, finding a reliable source of safe water is often time-consuming and expensive. This is known as economic scarcity. Water can be found...it simply requires more resources to do it.

The Water Project, Inc. is a non-profit organization working to provide access to clean water to people in developing nations who suffer needlessly without it.

With our team of supporters we're funding clean water projects like water wells and rain catchment systems 

reflection :

I think chinese government should improve more modern machine so that the poor farmer can get more good harvest in a faster way.also, government should support or help their expenditure like buying seeds or buying machine.it can improve people's living standard and incomes increase.government should teach them some farming methods like mixed farming so that the farmers can both have a good harvest and livestock for food or selling in the market.moreover,chinese government should help the farmers while there is a drought.droughts may effects the plants and animals cannot live.the ecosystem is adversely affected.the drought will lead to crop failure so the food shortages may occur.and it is not enough to self-sufficient.so it causes inconvenience and may even affect people's health and live.in conclusion,to solve the food problem,the chinese government is time to action.

India is among the countries which are at the greatest risk of food insecurity due to climate change.

India is among the countries which are at the greatest risk of food insecurity due to weather extremes caused by climate change, a global study suggests.

Researchers led by the University of Exeter in the UK examined how climate change could affect the vulnerability of different countries to food insecurity - when people lack access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.

The countries at the greatest vulnerability to food insecurity when moving from the present-day climate to 2 degrees Celsius global warming are Oman, India, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, researchers said.

“Climate change is expected to lead to more extremes of both heavy rainfall and drought, with different effects in different parts of the world,” said Richard Betts, a professor at the University of Exeter.

“Such weather extremes can increase vulnerability to food insecurity,” said Betts.

“Some change is already unavoidable, but if global warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, this vulnerability is projected to remain smaller than at 2 degrees Celsius in approximately 76 per cent of developing countries,” he said.

reflection:
I think climate change will affect the harvest.
The bad weather and the climate ,such as too cold or too hot,too dry,droughts,low rainfall,floods,too wet and so on will destroy the crops.these natural factors  hold back food production.In India,climate change affect the harvest.
To solve the problem in India.I think the government can give the food aid to the people when the climate change appear.The most direct and immediate solution solution to food problem is to provide food aid.Also government should give money to the farmers when climate change occur because the farmers will get the lost during the climate change.
Beside provide food aid,I think it's hard to do anything.Since climate change is a natural factor.

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This video is talking about 1.2 billion people in the world are living in water scarcity because of the consumption and demand of the water in the world are intensify increase. The reason for this is the people living in a higher standard and to use more water. Also, it mentions about how can we reduce and the water to solve this huge problem in our world. For instance, we can use the recycling technology which is advanced filtration and zero discharge closed-loop water recycling system can save more water.

Reflection:

After I watch this video, I think we should treasure our water resources because many places in our world haven’t had enough water and cause droughts like northern China and North Africa. Also, I think the fastest way is everyone to save more water in our daily life directly. For example, we should cut the showers short. Longer shower heads can use as much as 5 gallons of water per minute. Speed things up in the shower can save more water than you think. Second I think the government should do some policy to help to save this problem. In China, the government has some water transfer project to help this problem like  The South to North Water Transfer Project and I think the policy in different places also is a good way to solve this. Without the direct way to solve this problem, we also can use some indirectly way like we can buy fewer clothes and the factory can produce fewer clothes. When the factory to produce clothes, usually will use much water and pollute the water. If we can buy fewer clothes, we can also help to save water.

we can reduce waste then can save some food. Even if this doesn't help people who have no food to eat, but we won't let other feel chill for our waste. We

must reduce food , water or other things. If we waste amount of food can give two hundred million people to eat, then why do we have to waste food? 

Also the food waste will cause environmental problems. By 2050, waste of food will lead to an increase of 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. In the past fifty years, the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions from waste food has risen from 1.3 million tons to 5.3 million tons, up by more than 300%.
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Some of the major causes responsible for the food problem are population growth,low productivity,vigorous farming,natural calamities and less support from developed countries.For example,population explosion is one of the major causes of food problem in India.There is less food production as compared to increasing demand.

reflection:

About the natural calamities,frequent occurrence of natural calamities also resulted in the large loss of food production.These mainly include rainfall which is such that in some areas there is deficit of water causes drought.At same time,some of the part receives more than normal rain.It will resulting into flooding which directly affect the crop production.Also,the availability of advance technique in some developed countries is responsible for their high production.However,it is not available in poor countries.The developed countries do not transfer their techniques to poor countries.And it is in order to increase the export.Then,one of the reasons of low agricultural productivity is use of low technology and traditional farming method.Other causes of low productivity are small land holding,forest destruction, insufficient manure and defective land tenures.These reasons make the problem of food.
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In this diagram, we can see that in 1938 to 2013, there were more than 15 flooding which were happening in China. And, most of them are happened in Southern and central China. Also, the flooding was happening near the main river in China such as Huang He, Huai He and Dongting Lake.

After I read this diagram, I think that can be many factors for cause flooding. In these more than 20 times of flooding, only 9 times of flooding were casing in 20th century. That can see the flooding will become more and more. There also has many human factor like using more concrete混凝土 and asphalt 沥青 to covered the land. That makes the water cannot infiltrate when precipitation starts, then get overland flow increase. Or the physical factor like Relief, the silting makes the river become shallow and cannot hold more water as before. Then during the rainstorms, the flooding occurs easily.

And I think that we should use water carefully because the water that we can use too less. And waste water can make   the problems like over-drawing groundwater can make the lake become dry up to get silting. I also think that the government need to tell the people to know the importance about water. That maybe can let the flooding decrease.

This article is about Africa’s food crisis. In 1980s, there is the most intractable food problem that facing the world. In sub-Saharan Africa (the poorest part of the world), the food and hunger crisis.

Although the crisis follows by less than a decade the prolonged drought of the early 1970s in the Sahelian states of West Africa, the current dilemma is not caused by weather. Improved international disaster assistance programs can avert mass starvation and famine and assist with refugee resettlement.

Reflection

Africa is a kind of well-known place that have serious food problem, Sub-Saharan Africa faces specific and complex challenges. 

In the source, it had mention about the number of hungry people in the continent rose to 239 million in 2012 and 40% of children under five years old are stunted due to malnutrition. Africa's population is expected to almost double by 2050, bringing it to almost 2 billion people. Based on present trends, the current African food production system would be able to meet only 13% of the continent's needs by 2050.

It means that the main problem of food problem in Africa is among of population increase and the food demand is decrease. 

To solve this problem, food aid is one of the ways the solve it. Although it is a short term measure, it is a direct and immediate solution to food shortages. Also lowering the birth rate can reduce the pressure on local food production. Using the sustainable farming methods can improve the food supply to increase the food demand, such as set up irrigation kit or build barriers of rock. These methods can help to improve the food problem in Africa.

The global food problem consists of the lack of food provision for the Earth’s population.It manifests itself primarily in the poorest countries of the Third World and is currently aggravating as their populations grow.The total number of people suffering from a lack of food is over one billion people worldwide.The fact is that population growth outpaces agricultural problem and the development of agricultural.

Reflection(150 words)

According to World Health Organization and Food And Agriculture Organization,human daily norm should be 2400-2500 kilocalories,while other estimates give a higher figure——2700-2800 kilocalories.Undernourishment is visible when a person consumes less than kilocarlories ,while startvatin comes when their daily norm drops below the critical mark of 1000 kilocalories a day.Lack of food and the poor quality may cause very serious effects for people health and social and political tension and conflicts both in the regions suffering in the global world.Wheather it is acceptable in so rich a country to have 22 million children living in property and reliant on SNAP benefits depends on point of view because this agrument depends on values.It will cause the food issues.The poor are not alone in enjoying the benefits of government largesse

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UNICEF has warned Argentina that millions of its children are living in poverty, with one in eight facing food insecurity.

People can’t find a suitable job,even they can,they are some hard but low income job.Therefore ,how people get enough money to buy food?There are about one-third of the country's total population suffer from poverty.

Reflection:

First ,I think people in Argentina should stop producing babies.This make the population in Argentina increase quickly.As the increasing demand,adults need 

more money to buy food.However,they even can’t find job,so how can they support their children?(for example , 

the first lady in the video said that she had 4 children , but her husband can’t find job.They will definitely face the food problems)

If they can control the birth rate, reduce the population. I think less children will suffer from the food shortages.

Second,although the government had set up a program to help the children, or they said they will build up a better infrastructure.However, I think it uses too much time or can only help them for a very short period.It can’t really help the resident or children.Therefore I think government can listen to resident’s advice , then they can set up a better and suitable measure.

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This passage from the UNITED NATIONS is talk about the water problem in the world.Many people can‘t  get enough water for daily using. 2.1 billion of people can’t get the safety management and the sanitation management of water resources. It is exacerbating the water pollution and the propagation of infectious disease.The United Nations is setting up two days for raising the awareness of suitable using water and inspiring people.

Reflection:

I think the United Nations and the other international association  especially the people as us need to face this enormous problem.We need to think for the people in the other side of the earth.Not all the people get enough water for daily use ,they get a lack of water services.The weather in Africa and other dry region are bad then hence affects the water supply in those places .The people can’t get enough money for buying water from that city or the other places .The water on the river bank is polluted by the water discharges by the factories and manufacturing factories nearby.The people nearby can’t use the polluted water and the sewage for daily usage and many of the children were died because of a lack of water .It cause a serious water shortage.

Nowadays people waste many water .The people are wasting more and more water while the living standards are increasing and there is more and more economic activities as well.The people don’t have the awareness of saving water and water conservation .And it causes the distribution of water in the earth is uneven and cause water shortage in developing countries.

The government can increase the water charges for the citizens so the citizens will use less water .Beside the government can post some notices and poster everywhere to teach the citizens about the importance of reduce using water .The advertising is also useful to encourage citizens for raising money for the people to buy water in developing countries.The government can build some pipes for the people there for transferring the water from the other places and provides water for the people. In addition, the government can command the people to work in factories and they could exchange the water for the work they done.The government can have more manpower while the people can get enough water .Then, the government  can  educate the people that how to use water effectively and lower the risk of water shortage and balance the uneven distribution in the whole world.

Moreover,the international association such as the United Nations ,UNICEF and WHO.etc.are now discussing the solution of water shortage in the world .They have set up two special days for telling us that we are now facing the problem of water shortage.They will put more effort on the conservation of water and the ecosystem ,and reducing the risk of drought in those developing countries.

Water shortage is a serious problem now we are facing. I hope that the water could be a sustainable resources in the future in either our countries and those developing countries.