This article will be a good source for finding out how mamy people are living in poverty. This article also lists some things that are wrong structurally within poverty. One of the most interesting statistics that this article claims that 27,000 children died today and this is a number that coincides with the 3 billion people that live on less than two dollars a day.
This article basically describes poverty as a result of third world debt, free trade, corporations, consumption and consumerism, and a complex list of other facts that places almost three billion people living on less than two dollars a day. The article goes on to state how much money is being spent to try to help solve the poverty issue.
Helping to protect endangered species is another problem that fits in with our assigned topic. This page offers useful advice to how to help species that are suffering. I think this would be a great project for teachers to assign students in elementary classrooms specifically.
This article is about how the Persian Gulf is being polluted due to heavy transportation of oil rigs. "Due to the war and high rate of water evaporation, extended drilling and oil extraction, pollution of the water has increased alarmingly."
This article is about water pollution in China and how shortages of good water could significantly affect their society. An interesting fact is that "China supports 21% of the worlds population with just 7% of its water supplies.
This article is about the future possibility of having a paperless society due to technology. This could be one major factor to eliminating the destruction of rainforest.
This site has many interesting facts about how we are destroying our Earth. I think some of this information would be very useful during the "shock and awe" introduction.
I wonder if fusion as an energy source does not make the news as often as other alternative fuel because it is harder to grasp by the general public. Scientists seem to think that it is a safe, sustainable, powerful fuel source. However, I would like to research more into this process. I would also like to find out how similar this process is to that used in the nuclear power plants that are in use today.
It is very interesting to see how GE has benefitted from the US's war on terror. 90 percent of GE's nuclear power plants could discharge radiation into the atmosphere. It is responsible for polluting 78 Superfund sites, and is pushing the government to overturn Superfund legislation. Fraud and poor safety for workers are also issues. Why don't we see this on the ecomagination commercials?