Global problems

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Global problems

• By Rob La Fata
• Period 7
• Mr.Manganiello

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Historical Context

• Global Problems (Rob L.)
• Historical Context Many global problems affect
  the world today.
• Task For each global threat identify one cause
  and one result of this problem.
• AIDS
• Terrorism
• Famine
• Destruction of the rain forest
• Desertification
• Nuclear Proliferation

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AIDS

• This is a very serious disease that has grown
  from 2005 to more than 40 million people infected
  with this S.T.I
• This is more than double the number was in 2005
  as shown on http//globalhealth.org/view_top.php3?
  id227
• Most of the people with HIV are currently living
  in Africa or developing worlds
• Financed by a 19.5-million, five-year grant from
  the National Institute of Mental Health, the HIV
  Neurobehavioral Research Center will be staffed
  by researchers and physicians from UCSD, the San
  Diego Navy hospital and the San Diego Veterans
  Administration Medical Center.

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Terrorism

• Terrorism is people who try and get there way by
  bringing fear in to the hearts of children and
  adults by extremists following there beliefs of
  osama binladen on the 9/11 attacks
• This cause many people to be afraid to take
  planes sacarie masonry helped plain the 9/11
  attacks and is now sentenced to life and as he
  said when convicted you lost America.

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famine

• Famine is when people starve to death
• Many people are losing there children or parents
  do to hunger
• This is a big problem for countries such as
  Africa witch contains many countries that do
  also Ireland had a potato famine

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Destruction of the rain forest

• Rainforests once covered 14 of the earth's land
  surface
• acre is lost every second with horrible
  consequences
• http//www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm
• Brazil is considered the lungs of the earth
• The main blame for this is industrilization

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Desertification

• Some of the worlds greatest deserts were formed
  through this process all naturally
• This problem has become or has been known about
  since the 1930s
• In the last 25 years the satilites have been
  monitoring the Desertification process

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Nuclear Proliferation

• This word in layman's term is simple the spread
  of nuclear weapons
• This is a very big problem cause a weak country
  gets one or more of these we have a problem
  because even through there weak they can still
  become a threat
• The first time used was in wwII on Japan
• To stop the treats in 1957 united nations is made