Life in the year 2100

Since the 1950s, we have destroyed more than a third of our natural world. Our way of life has caused many serious environmental problems.  

We use huge amounts of natural resources and  produce too much rubbish. Pollution is change the  Earth's climate and our planet is getting hotter. The big questions is:  Will things ever change for the better?.

There are some scientists who are optimistic. They believe that with the help of science and strict laws today's enviromental problems will disappear in the future.  Other scientists are pessimistic. They believe that enviromental problems are getting worse and soon it will be too late to save the environment.  Let's see what predictions  pessimistic and the optimistic scientists have made about life on Earth in the year 2100.

PESSIMISTIC:

1. The Earth's population will probably be 22.2 billion.
2. The Earth's temperature will be 1.4 to 5.8 degrees Celsius higher than it is today.
3. The ice at The North and South Pole will melt and the sea level will rise by 9 to 88 cm.  Cities at or below sea level will sink.
4. Half of the Earth's plants and animals will disappear along with the tropical rain forests
5. People won't be able to survive on Earth, so they will have to find a new planet to live on.

OPTIMISTIC 

1.  The law will oblige families to have no more than one child, and this will reduce the Earth's population to two billion
2. People will use enviromentally-friendly energy sources like the sun and the wind, which do not pollute the air, so the Earth's temperature will not increase
3. Strict laws will protect animal and plant species from extinction.
4. A population of two billion people will need fewer natural resources, so there will be enough food, water, etc. for every one.

Write a short paragragh statin your position: Are you optimistic or pessimistic?

LET'S SAVE THE PLANET!

The time has come for all of us to start taking action towards achieving total positive awareness. The fate of our entire planet is at stake. For those of you who aren't aware of this, on December 21st, 2012, our solar system will be passing through the center of the galactic plane and we will begin the process of entering this area sometime in this year. The galactic plane is where the gravitational pull of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way is the greatest. There are numerous effects that will take place, including gamma rays hitting our sun, causing tremendous solar flares, the galactic wind will surpass the solar wind, the intense gravity of the black hole could initiate catastrophic events on our planet and other effects which you can read about or visit YouTube and search for 2012 galactic plane.

You can start believing that anything really is possible and that your own individual processes of turning things around, not only for yourselves, but for the sake of our planet, can really make a difference. And personally, I believe that it is our generation who will save us from ourselves, because we have always been the ones that thought we could change the world. I still believe we can.

What do you think about it? Will we hope to

start now and let's save the planet?

Mount Everest by Liberty k

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GOING UP

In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed to the top of Mount Everest.  The next challenge was to climb it without bottled oxygen.  This was the goal of Austrian climbers Peter Habeler and Reinhold Messner.  Doctors said they were crazy and told them not to try it.  They tried it anyway.  

On 8 May 1978, they were about 800 metres from the top of Everest.    They woke at 3 a.m. and began preparing.  It took them two hours to get dressed.  Every breath was precious and they used their hands to communicate.  Climbing was slow.  Messner thought he was going to burst like a balloon.  At 8.800 metres, they stopped and lay down every few steps because of the lack of oxygen. But between one and two in the afternoon they achieved their impossible goal.  They reached the top of Mount Everest without oxigen.

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LIFE IN THE YEAR 2100

Since the 1950s, we have destroyed more than a third of our natural world.  Our way of life has caused many serious environmental problems.  
We use huge amounts of natural resources and  produce too much rubbish.  Pollution is changing the  Earth's climate and our planet is getting hotter.  The big question is:  Will things ever change for the better?.
There are some scientists who are optimistic.  They believe that with the help of science and strict laws today's enviromental problems will disappear in the future.  Other scientists are pessimistic.  They believe that enviromental problems are getting worse and soon it will be too late to save the environment.  Let's see what predictions the pessimistic and the optimistic scientists have made about life on Earth in the year 2100.

PESSIMISTIC:

1. The Earth's population will probably be 22.2 billion.
2. The Earth's temperature will be 1.4 to 5.8 degrees Celsius higher than it is today.
3. The ice at the North and South Pole will melt and the sea level will rise by 9 to 88 cm.  Cities at or below sea level will sink.
4. Half of the Earth's plants and animals will disappear along with the tropical rain forests
5. People won't be able to survive on Earth, so they will have to find a new planet to live on.

OPTIMISTIC

1. The law will oblige families to have no more than one child, and this will reduce the Earth's population to two billion
2. People will use enviromentally-friendly energy sources like the sun and the wind, which do not pollute the air, so the Earth's temperature will not increase
3. Strict laws will protect animal and plant species from extinction.
4. A population of two billion people will need fewer natural resources, so there will be enough food, water, etc. for every one.

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