1. The Christian Science Monitor said that most candles are made from paraffin, a heavy hydrocarbon derived from crude oil, a fossil fuel, and that depending on how many candles a person burns (if one uses candles during Earth Hour), whether or not they normally use compact fluorescent light bulbs, and what source of energy is used to produce their electricity, in some cases, replacing light bulbs with candles will cause an increase, instead of a decrease, in carbon dioxide emissions.
2. Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, wrote, "It is vital to make solar and other new technology cheaper than fossil fuels quickly so we can turn off carbon energy sources for a lot longer than one hour and keep the planet running... Fossil fuels literally gave us enlightenment, by lighting our world and giving us protection from the fury of the elements. It is ironic that today's pure symbolism should hark back to a darker age."
3. The Ayn Rand Institute wrote, "Participants spend an enjoyable sixty minutes in the dark, safe in the knowledge that the life-saving benefits of industrial civilization are just a light switch away... Forget one measly hour with just the lights off. How about Earth Month... Try spending a month shivering in the dark without heating, electricity, refrigeration; without power plants or generators; without any of the labor-saving, time-saving, and therefore life-saving products that industrial energy makes possible.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
TRMENDOUS SPEECH...
Severn Suzuki | E.C.O. 1992 | Environmental Childrens Organization
“Hello, I am Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O - the Environmental Children’s Organization. We are a group of 12 and 13 year-olds trying to make a difference, Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We’ve raised all the money to come here ourselves, to come 5,000 miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. Coming up here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like losing an election, or a few points on the stock market.”
“I am here to speak for all generations to come. I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard. I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet, because they have nowhere left to go. I am afraid to go out in the sun now, because of the holes in our ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air, because I don’t know what chemicals are in it. I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my Dad until, just a few years ago, we found a fish full of cancers. And now we hear of animals and plants going extinct every day, vanishing forever. In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.”
“Did you have to worry of these things when you were my age? All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but I want you to realize, neither do you. You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring the salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can’t bring back the forest that once grew where there is now a desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it.”
“Here you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters or politicians. But, really, you’re mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles and all of you are someone’s child. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family, 5 billion strong, in fact 30 million species strong. And borders and governments will never change that. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal.”
“In my anger, I am not blind and in my fear I am not afraid of telling the world how I feel. In my country we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, buy and throw away and yet Northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough we are afraid to share, we are afraid to let go of some of our wealth. In Canada , we live the privileged life. We’ve plenty of food, water and shelter. We have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets. The list could go on for 2 days. Two days ago here in Brazil , we were shocked when we spent time with some children living on the streets. This is what one child told us, ‘I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicines, shelter and love and affection’. If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy? I can’t stop thinking that these are children my own age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are born. And that I could be one of those children living in the favelas of Rio . I could be a child starving in Somalia , or a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India . I am only a child, yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers ending poverty and in finding treaties, what a wonderful place this earth would be.”
“At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us to not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others and to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then, why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? Do not forget why you are attending these conferences, who you are doing this for. We are your own children. You are deciding what kind of a world we are growing up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying ‘Everything is going to be all right, it’s not the end of the world, and we are doing the best we can’. But I don’t think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities? My dad always says, ‘You are what you do, not what you say’. Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown-ups say you love us. But I challenge you, please, make your actions reflect your words. Thank you.”
“Hello, I am Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O - the Environmental Children’s Organization. We are a group of 12 and 13 year-olds trying to make a difference, Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We’ve raised all the money to come here ourselves, to come 5,000 miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. Coming up here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like losing an election, or a few points on the stock market.”
“I am here to speak for all generations to come. I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard. I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet, because they have nowhere left to go. I am afraid to go out in the sun now, because of the holes in our ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air, because I don’t know what chemicals are in it. I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my Dad until, just a few years ago, we found a fish full of cancers. And now we hear of animals and plants going extinct every day, vanishing forever. In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.”
“Did you have to worry of these things when you were my age? All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but I want you to realize, neither do you. You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring the salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can’t bring back the forest that once grew where there is now a desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it.”
“Here you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters or politicians. But, really, you’re mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles and all of you are someone’s child. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family, 5 billion strong, in fact 30 million species strong. And borders and governments will never change that. I’m only a child, yet I know we are all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal.”
“In my anger, I am not blind and in my fear I am not afraid of telling the world how I feel. In my country we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, buy and throw away and yet Northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough we are afraid to share, we are afraid to let go of some of our wealth. In Canada , we live the privileged life. We’ve plenty of food, water and shelter. We have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets. The list could go on for 2 days. Two days ago here in Brazil , we were shocked when we spent time with some children living on the streets. This is what one child told us, ‘I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicines, shelter and love and affection’. If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy? I can’t stop thinking that these are children my own age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are born. And that I could be one of those children living in the favelas of Rio . I could be a child starving in Somalia , or a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India . I am only a child, yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers ending poverty and in finding treaties, what a wonderful place this earth would be.”
“At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us to not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others and to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then, why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? Do not forget why you are attending these conferences, who you are doing this for. We are your own children. You are deciding what kind of a world we are growing up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying ‘Everything is going to be all right, it’s not the end of the world, and we are doing the best we can’. But I don’t think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities? My dad always says, ‘You are what you do, not what you say’. Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown-ups say you love us. But I challenge you, please, make your actions reflect your words. Thank you.”
EARTH HOUR
The March 28, 2009 Earth Hour Event was the largest of its kind.
Millions of people world-wide cast their votes in support of the Earth, urging world leaders to take action to fight global warming. The results will be presented at the 2009 Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Find out how to get involved and let your voice be heard.
Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008.
THIS PLANET IS FOR YOU!
JHORMAN ANDRÉS CALDERÓN
2006135934
We have entered an era of dangerous climate disruption and it poses a fundamental threat to the vulnerable places, species and people WWF seeks to protect. The world is already facing an accelerated rate of habitat loss and species extinction. Climate change increases the pace of these losses even more.
Earth Hour 2009 was from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time, March 28, 2009. 88 countries and more than 4,000 cities joined Earth Hour 2009, ten times more cities than Earth Hour 2008 had (2008 saw 400 cities participate). One billion "votes" was the stated aim for Earth Hour 2009.
UNKNOWN WORDS:
Millions of people world-wide cast their votes in support of the Earth, urging world leaders to take action to fight global warming. The results will be presented at the 2009 Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Find out how to get involved and let your voice be heard.
Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008.
THIS PLANET IS FOR YOU!
JHORMAN ANDRÉS CALDERÓN
2006135934
We have entered an era of dangerous climate disruption and it poses a fundamental threat to the vulnerable places, species and people WWF seeks to protect. The world is already facing an accelerated rate of habitat loss and species extinction. Climate change increases the pace of these losses even more.
Earth Hour 2009 was from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time, March 28, 2009. 88 countries and more than 4,000 cities joined Earth Hour 2009, ten times more cities than Earth Hour 2008 had (2008 saw 400 cities participate). One billion "votes" was the stated aim for Earth Hour 2009.
UNKNOWN WORDS:
Monday, April 27, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Fifth journal
Jhorman Calderon
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 5
METAPHOR AND WAR
I like this topic a lot; I’ve never thought that I’m going to read such as interesting topics in this class. It was a big surprise for me!
First of all, I want to say that throughout the history we can see the changes in the countries that in most of the cases depend of the kind of conception (philophical, political, economical etc.) that every time have brought to mankind.
Reading this text I realized that this world is in the top of a big conflict that in my opinion it started with the first man that lived in the earth.
Now, according to the differences between metaphor and war in politics. I consider that some words have no sense when people with high level position try to hide their bad acts in the administration of a state to support safely the country they are leading; but when they can no hide their government mistakes, they immediately change the reality with many conceptions as we can call metaphors.
In my opinion a metaphor is the skill to influence others and of course it’s relative to be able to make many interpretations of a particular situation; I mean that when we are in front of a metaphor is very complex to differentiate what is true from what is no true.
Following the before paragraph, in public administration it’s used to be called “paradigmatic changes” that’s why a war is the immediately consequence of doing a metaphor mistake.
In international politics, a state is usually conceptualized as a person, engaging in social relations within a world community.
Now, talking about the “fairy tale” I think that it show to us the unfair treatment that innocent people receive in this world where everything are systems with different method of force to apply justice. (Conceptions too)
I think that the globalization let us understand how this world constitute connections to establish differences in power and domination, but, the principal argument of each country to defend their political, social and economical interest depend of the ideological trend that they have chosen to govern their community in order to be superior and competitive in all ways as a country or as person.
For example the president of the USA said that he was in the Persian gulf to “protect freedom, protect our future, and protect the innocent” and he said that he must push Sadam Hussein back” but we know that his only pretention was to be the owner of the best petroleum that exist in this world in the Persian Gulf. So everything was a metaphor or in my own words a “paradigm” that changes the history and customs in the Middle East.
To conclude this journal I want to say that being professional we need to be very efficiencies and efficacies with the purpose to not be ignored, especially when we must take a transcendental decision.
7th April 2009
METAPHOR AND WAR
George Lakoff
UNKNOWN WORDS
Stranglehold: llave, dominio
Backward: hacia atrás
Manhood: madurez, hombría
Acclaim: aclamar
Mesh: malla
Theft: robo
Arson: incendio provocado
Cunning: astuto, malicioso
Ruthless: implacable, inexorable
Warfare: guerra
Draftee: recluta
QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION
3. For you, what’s the perfect system to govern Colombia?
4. Have you ever been in trouble for having a metaphor in your mind?
QUOTES
- Metaphorical thought is commonplace and inescapable.
- It is important to distinguish what is metaphorical from what is not.
- Experts in international relations have an additional system of metaphors.
- Saddan is certainly immoral, ruthless, and brutal, but there is no evidence that he is anything but rational.
- The U.S. does not have anything like a proper understanding of the issue of Arab dignity.
OPINION
We are the consequence of metaphors and wars in our daily life. I learnt that what we want to get depend of the acts which confront the circumstances at any time.
It’s very important to have a global vision of the reality to take part in the solutions against the problems that are coming up…
Foreign Languages
English VII
Martha Muñoz
Journal # 5
METAPHOR AND WAR
I like this topic a lot; I’ve never thought that I’m going to read such as interesting topics in this class. It was a big surprise for me!
First of all, I want to say that throughout the history we can see the changes in the countries that in most of the cases depend of the kind of conception (philophical, political, economical etc.) that every time have brought to mankind.
Reading this text I realized that this world is in the top of a big conflict that in my opinion it started with the first man that lived in the earth.
Now, according to the differences between metaphor and war in politics. I consider that some words have no sense when people with high level position try to hide their bad acts in the administration of a state to support safely the country they are leading; but when they can no hide their government mistakes, they immediately change the reality with many conceptions as we can call metaphors.
In my opinion a metaphor is the skill to influence others and of course it’s relative to be able to make many interpretations of a particular situation; I mean that when we are in front of a metaphor is very complex to differentiate what is true from what is no true.
Following the before paragraph, in public administration it’s used to be called “paradigmatic changes” that’s why a war is the immediately consequence of doing a metaphor mistake.
In international politics, a state is usually conceptualized as a person, engaging in social relations within a world community.
Now, talking about the “fairy tale” I think that it show to us the unfair treatment that innocent people receive in this world where everything are systems with different method of force to apply justice. (Conceptions too)
I think that the globalization let us understand how this world constitute connections to establish differences in power and domination, but, the principal argument of each country to defend their political, social and economical interest depend of the ideological trend that they have chosen to govern their community in order to be superior and competitive in all ways as a country or as person.
For example the president of the USA said that he was in the Persian gulf to “protect freedom, protect our future, and protect the innocent” and he said that he must push Sadam Hussein back” but we know that his only pretention was to be the owner of the best petroleum that exist in this world in the Persian Gulf. So everything was a metaphor or in my own words a “paradigm” that changes the history and customs in the Middle East.
To conclude this journal I want to say that being professional we need to be very efficiencies and efficacies with the purpose to not be ignored, especially when we must take a transcendental decision.
7th April 2009
METAPHOR AND WAR
George Lakoff
UNKNOWN WORDS
Stranglehold: llave, dominio
Backward: hacia atrás
Manhood: madurez, hombría
Acclaim: aclamar
Mesh: malla
Theft: robo
Arson: incendio provocado
Cunning: astuto, malicioso
Ruthless: implacable, inexorable
Warfare: guerra
Draftee: recluta
QUESTIONS FOR DICUSSION
3. For you, what’s the perfect system to govern Colombia?
4. Have you ever been in trouble for having a metaphor in your mind?
QUOTES
- Metaphorical thought is commonplace and inescapable.
- It is important to distinguish what is metaphorical from what is not.
- Experts in international relations have an additional system of metaphors.
- Saddan is certainly immoral, ruthless, and brutal, but there is no evidence that he is anything but rational.
- The U.S. does not have anything like a proper understanding of the issue of Arab dignity.
OPINION
We are the consequence of metaphors and wars in our daily life. I learnt that what we want to get depend of the acts which confront the circumstances at any time.
It’s very important to have a global vision of the reality to take part in the solutions against the problems that are coming up…
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