Global Issues- Malaysia Week

This year for Malaysia Week I went to Endau Rompin. On the way there, I could see some serious global Issues. The first was the palm tree plantation. After the bus ride, we needed to ride a jeep to go through non-asphalt road. During that ride, I saw that the road was nothing but orange dust, and only life I could find on the way was palm trees. Every time the Jeep in front of ours moved, it was gone behind a thick layer of orange cloud. The next was seen about an hour later, when I saw a big area of land covered with ashes. I just thought there could have been a forest fire, but I saw a fire still on and a person just staring at it. That's when I realized that the person intensionally burned down the trees of the forest, turning it in to Carbon-dioxide.

http://www.uoregon.edu/~donovan/favorite.htm

Poverty

In our Global Issues class, we watched a video raising awareness of poverty. It showed a picture showing a scene of poverty, and a person in a civilization of wealthiness holding a paper with a fact about poverty.

I think what made this video have a strong message was that most people in the scenes of poverty is staring towards the out side of the photo. This let their sadness be shown through photo. Also, the information written on the papers shown in the video made me look back on how I lived. They told me that while I was throwing away food, water and money for my comfort, many were dying from lack of them.

I think we can make a video like this, to raise awarness of many serious global issues taking place in the world this second. No matter what problem we face, we can solve it, if we, all human beings, are aware of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOBmstGTYsw&feature=player_embedded

Picture from HERE