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1.I think that I didn't do it properly, which may have caused something off but with the answer I got it's really bad.
I was shocked when it said that I would need 4.5 planets if everyone lived like me.
It made me realize that I have to find another way.
But we need, it's just so hard; to try and find a new way but we manage.
2. Sadly I was not able to get into the website.
3. it was surprisingly a huge amount, the world had 1243 m3 and I had 746 m3.
I think the important part to reduce is meat, I eat way too much meat- which, and not many other things.
The rest is good to keep that way because they're nicely placed.
There is a law in Peru called the Water Citizenship.
Peru the home of 70 percent of the world’s tropical glaciers – it has been calculated that within the coming 15 years all the glaciers below 5,500 masl. are bound to disappear. This is a serious threat to a country where precipitation is seasonal and often irregular and where glaciers constitute the principal source of freshwater for both the urban and the rural population.
The growing water shortage caused the Peruvian government to pass a water law in 2009 that provides a new institutional framework to manage and distribute the country’s fresh water supply and introduces a new set of values to assess and tax the use of water for private consumption, agriculture, mining and industry. All communities have access, and who controls the water? It would be the government of Peru.
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Hi Cielo,
My name is Helen Chen, I am another mentor, and I very much enjoyed reading your response. Since you were very surprised about the result, what do you think you can do (apart from reducing your meat consumption) to reduce the number? Indeed what is happening in Peru is a good example of assessing and taxing water consumption to increase the sustainability, but can find another country where it is not that way and people either have little to no or a very adulterated water supply? How can what you learned from the Peruvian situation be applied to that country (or place) to help solve their crisis?
This is a great start, thank you for your dedication for this issue :)
Hello Cielo,
My name is Elliot Damasah and I am your mentor for this program. It is my responsibility to guide you through this program.
I can relate to the shock you expressed when you realized 4.5 planets will be required to sustain your kind of lifestyle. It is the more reason why we should carefully monitor our ways of life. As you have already mentioned, we have to "manage", despite the difficulty we may encounter in doing so, else we face "losing" our planet completely.
Sorry you could not access the climate change website. I recommend that you use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers. This is the link to download Google Chrome :
https://www.google.ca/chrome/browser/features.html...
Link to climate change video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/cl...
It is good that the Peruvian government has implemented measures for managing the water resources in the country. indeed, initiatives of this sort will help mitigate the negative impact our lifestyles have on climate change.
Question:
1. Can you think of any specific way you can impact climate change positively? An example is educating people to create awareness. Think of other ways our planet can benefit from your life style.
2. Do you think people in your community will have ecological carbon print results similar to yours?
Remark:
I am impressed. keep it up!!
Helen Chen
Sep 22, 2017