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Before we begin…
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What if you lived in Nepal rather than the United States?
You would… have 7.5 times higher chance of dying in infancy have 4.9 times more chance of being unemployed use 99.38% less electricity consume 99.01% less oil make 97.41% less money die 12.43 years sooner have 62.18% more babies spend 99.23% less money on health care experience 4.89% more of a class divide be 16.67% less likely to have HIV/AIDS
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/US/NP
Problem #1- Endangered Animals
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Problem #1- Endangered Animals
Men in China admire finetiger and leopard pelts.
Before After
A Bengal tiger cub restsin Nepal.
http://www.himalayanfootsteps.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/1906662004_7a32214d77.jpg
http://www.occupyforanimals.org/china-reopens-trade-in-tiger-and-leopard-skins-2011.html
Endangered Animals continued…
This image shows the number of rhinos left in the world.
Confiscated Asian elephant tusks in the Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/elephants/asian_elephants/areas/issues/illegal_hunting_trade/
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Problem #2- Trash! (Bagmati River)
Who needs a sewage system when everyone can dump their stuff into the river instead?
Trash continued… (Mt Everest)
Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, brings many climbers and all of their trash.
Problem #3- Air Pollution
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/sites/vancouverobserver.com/files/resize/images/blog/body/polluted%20scene%20Kathmandu_0-500x334.jpg
The busy streets of Kathmandu hold people, buildings, cars, and dust.
Problem #4- Himalayan Glaciers
http://www.himalayanconsensus.org/files/images/glacier_bay012905.jpg
A glacier in the Himalayas in 1941…
…and the same glaciers afterwards.
Problem #4
“the melting glaciers will have an adverse impact on biodiversity, hydropower, industries and agriculture, flooding hydroelectric plants and inundating fields.”
-Gopal Sharma, journalist for Reuters
Problem #4
Before: Glaciers melt slowly & gradually Water flows
down to hydropower plants Nepal gets highest hydropower potential in the world (84,000 megawatts)
After: Glaciers melt fast & not gradually
Hydropower companies cannot handle it Nepal gets looooong blackouts (up to 20 hour power cuts per day).
Problem #4
“the melting glaciers will have an adverse impact on biodiversity, hydropower, industries and agriculture, flooding hydroelectric plants and inundating fields.”
-Gopal Sharma, journalist for Reuters
“industries” = tourism
Problem #4
Gopal Sharma says that tourism is “…a key pillar of the impoverished local economy, which relies on that and aid for survival.”
Problem #4
Nepalese citizens crowd at a highway after a flood.
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo/_new/pb-080826-nepalFlood-birkett.photoblog900.jpg
Problem #4
-Bharat Tharpa, Nepalese farmer
"During the entire rainy season we don't sleep well, always fearing that another flood could hit our village,"
"We are not responsible for the climate change. Why are we made to suffer then?"
Solution #1- Endangered Animals
http://www.nepal-uncovered.com/guide/nepal/sukla_phanta.php
A rhino in Sukla Phanta National Park.
A tiger in Sukla Phanta National Park, Nepal.
Solution #2- Trash
Volunteers participate in cleaning up the Bagmati River.
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Problem #2 Trash
Some of the many works of art created from Mt. Everest trash.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/innovations/Images/2012-11-26T175234Z_01_NEP04_RTRIDSP_3_NEPAL-EVEREST-TRASH-119.jpg?uuid=rRFbsDmfEeKwH19VsZP1jwhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/innovations/Images/2012-11-26T175320Z_01_NEP03_RTRIDSP_3_NEPAL-EVEREST-TRASH.jpg?uuid=cPwC9jmfEeKwH19VsZP1jw
Solution #3
http://www.workandvolunteer.com/environmental-action-volunteer
A volunteer from Twin maintains vegetation in Nepal.
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