Caribbean have risen making hurricanes stronger as a forerunner of what may be to come the result of manmade global warming. Our hunger for energy is pushing our planet off balance we burn huge amounts of oil gas and coal releasing Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the average temperature on earth has risen by around one degree celsius since industrialization began and its still doing so our oceans are warming up causing sea levels to rise since 880. 00 theyve risen by around 24. 00 centimeters the polar ice caps are melting and if the antarctic were to saw sea levels could rise by 16 meters flooding the vast areas of land its a disaster and its already begun. A poverty stricken district. In manilas port area thats packed with houses on stilts at the edge of the sea. The people here live on the water and from it and sometimes they fear it especially the monster waves spawned by typhoons lovely smore as came here looking for a
Biodiversity of vast range of plants and animals live in the forest habitats in fact 80 percent of the worlds to rest till species inhabit them since time immemorial they also have provided us with animals to hunt for to eat and wood to burn and build but now the worlds forests are under massive pressure from logging agriculture and pollution thats our topic today on made the forest lets start in germany where forest is face problems ranging from erosion to drought to storms and flooding and insect pests around the country was the tables are falling and the forestry business in some places is on the ropes changing conditions are proving a major challenge for Many Small Companies who live off the forest. Martin hustled by his a forester who tends to 140 hectares of woods in northeastern germany mostly conifers with some deciduous species conditions have been exceptionally dry for several years now and the trees are suffering dozens of pits have been dug to monitor soil quality and moist
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Mr. Clerk, can you please call roll call . Item one, roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you. I will proceed with the chairs reports. Colleagues, i would like to begin this meeting with offering our collective deepest condolences to the families of Michael Evans and Benjamin Dean who were hit and killed in horrific crashes on our streets last week, as well as kelly dean who is critically injured and in the hospital. As was noted at the rally on the steps of city hall this morning, commissioner haney organized it, and motorists must slow down. The tenderloin, which is an area that commissioner haney and i share, his not a traffic sewer, it is a neighborhood, and i did not have a chance to say this morning at the rally, but when you drive through there, if you are watching my face, when you drive through there, you drive through there at 25 miles an hour or less. Speed kills. I am going to depart from my remarks and say the following thing, which is we are joined by we were jo
Provided us with animals to hunt for to eat and wood to burn and build but now the worlds forests are under massive pressure from logging agriculture and pollution thats our topic today on made the forest lets start in germany where foresters face problems ranging from erosion to drought to storms and flooding and insect pests around the country water tables are falling and the forestry business in some places is on the ropes changing conditions are proving a major challenge for Many Small Companies who live off the forest. Martin haselbach is a forester who tends to 140 hectares of woods in northeastern germany mostly conifers with some deciduous species conditions have been exceptionally dry for several years now and the trees are suffering dozens of pits have been dug to monitor soil quality and moisture levels. Last year we had rainfall of just 300 liters per square metre thats the same as in the savannah woodlands of the serengeti and with that zebras rhinos and elephants the fore