Help our world. Ecology is in crisis too.

As we may already know, we're not suffering an economic crisis only, our ecology is in crisis too. Are you helping our world to heal? World leaders are, we should be too.

World leaders have been occupied looking for answers to improve our environmental situation. They had had several meetings at the General Assembly in which they have done great progress arguing about major issues as:

• Economic Crisis
• Nuclear Disarmament: "We continue the march for a world without nuclear weapons.” -Council
• Climate Change

Some of the points they talked about in climate changes are:

• The need to limit the global average temperature rise to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius with most vulnerable countries pushing for an even more stringent 1.5-degree limit.
• China said it would be prepared to take additional actions to reduce energy intensity in the context of an international agreement.
• They should be 5 per cent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020.
• “At long last, leaders focused on climate change financing and got more concrete, with many expressing support for the proposal for $100 billion annually over the next decade for concrete adaptation and mitigation actions,” Mr. Ban said.

The European Union is also involved. Mr. Ban announced its support for a fast track funding facility for adaptation and their readiness to provide €5 billion to €7 billion to get it started.

*Mr. Ban Ki-moon: General Secretary of the United Nations

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32340&Cr=ban&Cr1=

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Nuclear Weapons

Nowadays having the greatest military power is not the decisive factor to be the most powerful country; however, it still sets apart world powers from other nations. Nuclear weapons are by far the most destructive ones in existence; and the proper regulation of their use is of outmost importance for the welfare of our world. The magnitude of their power is so big that they have been used for war only once, at the end of World War II, when their devastaing effects made us realize that a nuclear war could equal the destruction of humanity.

Here's a link to a video about the Russian "Tsar Bomba":

YouTube - The largest nuclear weapon ever: Tsar Bomba 50 Megatons

Since the Cold War, several treaties to control the number of nuclear weapons have been made, and most of them also regulate the development of new nuclear technology. This is supposed to protect the security of our world; however, the fact that these nuclear weapons exist, and are ready to be used is worrying enought if we consider that just in the US, there are enough nuclear missiles to destroy our world several times over.

Click here to see a chronological list

of the treaties and agreements on nuclear weapons.

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Nuclear Weapons Free Zones

Are you afraid of a nuclear war? Good news! Most of the countries are NWFZ.

A Nuclear-Weapons-Free-Zone or NWFZ is defined by the United Nations. They come to this decision by treaty. The treaty bans the use, development or deployment of nuclear weapons in an specific area. In this map we can see how areas are divided:

Nuclear Weapon Free Zone

Nuclear Weapon States

Nuclear Sharing

Neither, but NPT

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Nuclear Weapons..

For those of you, who enjoy reading and learning about nuclear weapons (like I do), here is a very interesting link to a webpage called "The Nuclear Weapon Archive". In here you can find information about nuclear weapons that have been developed, used, lost and found, even according to different countries. Enjoy

"The Nuclear Weapon Archive"

--> http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/

Feel free to post any opinions about this site.

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More Resources

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A useful link to supplement what we have been discussing recently, looking at countries that gave up nuclear weapons and thus their overall ambitions:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/214193?from=rss

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Excellent Resource - Hiroshima

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Dear Students,

It´s been 64 years since the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. This link provides excellent high-quality photographs of the disaster, for you to appreciate just how destructive the bomb was, and why we really do need to think before we use nuclear weapons.

I will say that this website in general is excellent, but do be advised that some of the images are graphic in nature.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/hiroshima_64_years_ago.html

Have a good weekend,



Maestro.

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