Hi my name is Genesis Kaeo, and this is my personal blog. Our Kahiau project is all about Water Pollution, which is the sixth UN Sustainability Initiative. While reading through my blog always remember that "You can clean too!"
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There were multiple ways in which new technology played a part in WW2. The new technology gave the incentive to start the war. With access to these technologies, governments developed egos and think they can do anything. They want to test these new techs.
The rise and fall of nations are impacting aina very negatively. The pollution from war and bombings have left the aina very sickly and broken. Throughout the many wars, all of the nuclear testing, all of the fighting, has caused very dangerous for the land which is used. This in turn is not good for the people. The people live off the land and if the land is being polluted and destroyed, there may not be anything to live off of.
The top three hot spots of the cold war were Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam. The Korean war was what broke out the civil war and soon the Cold War, many lives were lost for very little gain. The cuban missile crisis was a big deal. Keeping them from going communist was a great deal for the missile power that the country had would be a giant problem for the US. Vietnam was one of the United States' greatest failures. The US failed to stop Vietnam from becoming communist and failed to defeat them.
Rather than end all wars, it was the foothold of all wars. WWI is what set into motion all of the conflicts to come for the world and its people. Yes it does, for its people fighting for their ideals and culture. They want to protect what they find sacred and remove all that stands against that. Its a threat because we could be taken away of our greatest weapon, our voice. If we cannot voice out, whats the point of freedom? I agree with it as of now, but it most definitely can be improved upon and upgraded. The B-17 flying fortress was one of the most helpful because at the time it was one of the greatest advances of technology in the air. Its aircraft abilities were greater than most of the other planes that were made at that time. The T-34 was another great weapon used because because it was almost indestructable due to the fact that artillery reflected off of the surface of its impenetrable armor. Finally the greatest asset the military had that contributed most to ending the war was the atomic bomb, its mass destructed was used to destroy Hiroshima and eventually lead to the end of the war itself.
Ways that it shows good leadership actions is that we were able to defend ourselves, for example the atomic bomb was only used as a retaliation for bombing the US. So eventually we won the war. Ways that showed bad leadership is that our retaliation was overboard, and we could have made better decisions and protected our people more. Its radiation continues to affect the surrounding areas, making people sick and affecting the nature around it. They are still paying the price because of how difficult it is to clean the radiation. This is unfortunate since the people did not have a choice on whether the army could test there or not. (Slide 6) This could be seen in water pollution because the long term effect of the bomb (radiation etc..) could have polluted the water too. Saudi Arabia, which borders Yemen, saw Houthi control of Yemen as a threat—in part because the Houthis were getting some assistance from Iran, Saudi Arabia’s longtime regional adversary. (Saudi Arabia is a Sunni country, and Iran, like the Houthis, is Shiite; the two branches of Islam have long been at odds.) So in March 2015, Saudi Arabia— leading a coalition of Arab states—launched a full-scale military campaign against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
“This is a civil war that surrounding countries have jumped into,” says Jon Alterman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. . . . But Saudi Arabia isn’t just bombing Yemen. Under the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia has imposed international blockades and restrictions on what can be imported into Yemen in order to undercut the Houthis. Those measures have devastated Yemen’s already-fragile economy and hit civilians hard. The malthusian flux theory is applied in a couple ways in this example of the First Big Fight. The first reason is that population increased while people died so it was evened out. Another reason is that it gave people more to fight for.
The way this effects our Kahiau project is that with more people comes more waste on our planet. What I planned for community service was to pick up trash on a beach with a company, but I ended up signing up the day before and going with 808cleanups to go and clean trash around my community park. It went really well! What went well is that I actually did community service successfully but I definitely could have planned more but it went okay overall. My understanding of UN goals and poverty is developing, this is because during the trash pickup she explained to us a lot about how trash forms in this area, and how it gets to other places. The trash highly affects the people in the park too. This did not develop my leadership skills very much, but I learned a lot.
“It is not enough to have a good mind: the main thing is to use it well.” - Rene Descartes This impacts my project because we may be the smartest people in the world, we may know how to solve all the world’s pollution problems but if we choose not to do the work then we mine as well be a couch potato. |