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This article talks about how unhealthy gambing is. We don't realize how damaging gambling is and we encourage it. We should be justifying how terrible it is instead of glorifying it.

Interesting article about gambling addiction. Gambling is not often thought of as a harmful addiction, like substance abuse is. It is important that people begin to recognize the dangers of addiction.

This article shows how powerful oil giant, Chevron; uses it's vast influence to shirk the First Amendment. To avoid lawsuits Chevron forces journalists to turn over damaging evidence.

Denmark after one year removed the fat tax and would be phasing out the soft drink tax in one year. The tax was damaging to local economy and didn't deliver any concrete benefits. Again one single food or bev can be held responsible. between 1999-2011 soda decreased by 32% and fat rates still rose.

This is a fascinating article questioning whether or not same-sex marriage damages others' religious freedoms. While I do not completely agree with the thoughts stated in the article, they do raise some interesting points.

The article explains the disproporationate amount of deaths in African American individuals in the United States in comparison to their counterpart. As well as the psychological effects on their communities. It explains that most agencies don't even have a policy to enforce against police brutality.

With only 3% of world's fresh water, this causes the threat of water scarcity. Some of the main causes are water pollution, agriculture, population growth, overall climate change. This is overall damaging our ecosystems and lack water for everyone all around the world.

Water scarcity is one of the biggest concerns of our time. The photos and videos on this site do a good job of conveying how dire the situation is, and how we should be paying more attention to such a precious resource.

This is a huge concern especially when companies are starting to sell water for profit

Gun violence in America is discriminated towards people of color, gender differences, and so much more. The amount of damage a gun can cause in the wrong hands is strictly based off the person internal thoughts. The social injustice that comes with people having guns is bad

The National Security Agency has greatly expanded since September 11, 2001. People have come forward and recently exposed the corruption of the system, and the spying the agency has conducted on millions of Americans, through phone calls and other mass forms of media we consume everyday.

I understand the reason for the surveillance, but I feel that if they find nothing wrong, they should move on. I also feel that it is a violation of peoples' rights to privacy. If I was a suspected terrorist or caught peeping on sites that I shouldn't, please track me so that I don't hurt anyone or do irreparable damage. However, if you spy on me and all I do is talk to family and do homework, pay bills and occasionally visit Facebook, then just leave me alone. Spend the time watching someone that you should be.

Whether the NSA is listening to you or not, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about, they are not sharing your information with others, nor are they even listening closely to your conversation. The NSA was weakened through the repealing of the patriot act last year, and since there have been 3 major terror attacks on the homeland, a clear rise in terror in the homeland through the gained power of terrorist due to paranoia from American citizens, who value privacy over safety.

Sexism is an awful part of our society. It affects both men and women. But people do not understand how damaging sexism can be. It can endager attitudes, jobs physical and mental health. Many women avoid talking about their issues because they fear being called Hysteric, or bossy.

Aaron Klein and his wife Melissa, co-owners of now-closed Sweet Cakes, paid out more than $135,000 in damages to the lesbian couple they refused to bake a wedding cake for in January 2013. Shop owners have the right to refuse service to anyone, but who's to blame for this issue right now? The couple turned away took this to court, instead of going a cheaper route and buying cake from someone new. Will this be a fear for store owners all over America? It is a right to refuse service and ever owner knows that, why is this any different?

This article is mostly a run down on the basic information regarding the protest at Standing Rock. It also shows how important the land is and what the pipeline could damage.

Thank you for sharing this. I had heard the the pipeline was going through now and wanted to read more information on this.

Good information on this.

The "Freedom of Information Act" doesn't provide a blanket right to public access to government documents. However, It's understandable to have exceptions for certain classified national security or foreign policy documents if their release would damage American interests.

Climate Change is going to collapse the food system. It may occur faster or slower in varied regions but its disruption will take a toll on everyone. Human civilizations may no longer be supported?

This gives a short description of what happens when the Climate changes and how it affects the lives of millions. It is also costing us millions/billions of dollars.

Kathleen Maclay, the author, discusses the economic effect of climate change in the United States within the next 100 years using the information from a study published in the journal Science. The author states that climate change will make income inequality worse due to the mass migrations that will occur. The author recommends that politicians consider what is most important when making decisions about climate change and to remember that it will effect the economy of tomorrow.

Mass migration is already happeningredients in today's world due to war. Would people begin to take population migration seriously if it happened in our country today because of climate change? Imagine if Hurricane Harvey had done worse damage and the city had decided to evacuate the affected cities, more people would have to had to migrate elsewhere.

This article explains how children in lower-class families in Moldova have a very low opportunity to participate in early education. The author talks about how this can be a disadvantage for their future.

This article was somewhat heart breaking to read. It talks about the differences in attendance of children in Moldova between early education and secondary education. Many of the children are not passing the exams when reaching the secondary education, thus some tend to drop out or many do not even attend at all.

Lower-class families are having this problem everywhere and its a problem that needs to be fixed because it damages the future of these students and their possible careers.

This site goes over the many scientists studying climate change and its impact around the globe. The site also highlights the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and their efforts to predict the effects of climate change.

Using NASA as a source for climate change is great. This is a great web source for being able to quickly see what scientists are saying in active research.

I found this article to be very informative on the effects of climate change. I was not aware that hurricanes would become worse and growing seasons increase.

In this article, it shows us how wildfires and it's smoke effect the environment and the people around the incident. These fires pollute the air. These fires can cause serious health issues.

Wildfires have seriously hurt our ecosystem and everyone/everything's health in the process. Lots of the fire could be prevented had people not be goofing around with flammables too.

Wildfires are so damaging! I've witnessed the problems its caused up in the northern part of Arizona by Pine and Strawberry, so thankful for the firefighters who risk their lives to stop them.