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  Jessica Seaton-   A Brazilian leader spoke up about us killing the earth and people participating in deforestation in the Amazon. We are ruining forest by logging, the rivers are drying up, the forest is warmer, animals and plants are going extinct. The young man thought of ways to get our forest and our food back by planting 2 million trees in the forest. He plans to plant 10 million more trees to prove that we can create sustainable situation without harming the earth.  The leader talked about ways to solve the problem of our cutting down of trees. He is trying to make a difference and teach the younger generation how to save the earth instead of bringing more harm to it and to protect our future. He had a valid argument that our government needs to respect nature more instead of being the ones to kill it, I could not agree more.    https://time.com/5676877/indigenous-leader-amazon-brazil/  

Instead of talking about what other people are doing I’m going to talk about what I have been doing since I was five years old on our family farm. Instead of waiting for changes to happen for us we help it happen at a faster rate. For example, we help wildlife flourish by growing and making homemade habitats for the deer specifically on our land. We also plant food plots so they are well fed if they run out of the natural resource for the season. Some seasons are better than others but my dad and I plan for the worst, sometimes spending a whole lot of extra money to make sure that all other animals eat too. We make the food plots for deer, squirrels, turkeys, raccoons, and even bobcats. The other thing we do is controlled burns so we can “reset” the field for harvest. Even if we don’t use the field for harvesting food we then plant crab grass so there can be natural camouflage for the deer and turkey that hangout in the field. We have gotten it down to such a science that we purposely ...

 Marine Conservation  is the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas.    Marine Conservation is the  focus on trying to protect marine ecosystems due to human-caused damage. Marine conservation is also focused on trying to have the sea and ocean life restored to keep animals from dying off. This article explains how sea lions, whales, dolphins, etc are becoming extinct due to over usage of human activity over the years.  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210325150153.htm

 The largest coal miner union in the United States has recognized that their former way of employment is going to die soon and are wanting the media outlets to know that there are wanting jobs in the renewable energy force as soon as possible I think this is good because what there doing in those coal miners are doing hard work they are smart and realizing that this field is dying and they want these high paying jobs for work they've been doing the same style of for yours. The president of the Union said we are taking good high paying jobs where we can get them!  https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/coal-miners-union-lobbies-for-jobs-in-renewable-energy/ 

Farming produce the majority of the food that the world intakes and there is a lot of people out there that don't realize that. When reading through the facts and nutrimental ingredients you can never tell what farm had grown the food or it was even farm grown. This causes some people to think about the work that farmers are doing and if they are really getting credited for what they are producing. Small farm owners are able to get their products out there just like the bigger farms but they still have the competition of industrial farming. For example when you go to Florida you see tons of orange fields, some of those fields might be local grown but most of them are apart of a big production. Not singling out anything about smaller or bigger farms but these two have to be able to work together to be able to feed 330 million people and keeping production going will keep the world fed. 

 Teagan Lovin  4/19/2021  Nutrient  pollution   Nutrient pollution is one of the costly challenges when it comes to pollution in water. Nutrient pollution is  caused by excess nitrogen and phosphorus in the water. Nitrogen and phosphorus are already in the water naturally, they help produce algae and aquatic plants which provide food to other animals. When there is excess though this causes over production of those plants. This causes harm to the water quality due to the over production. It also takes from the oxygen supply for the fish that live in these bodies of water causing them to die off.  https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/issue

  Land Use is becoming a big problem in our world today due to construction of buildings, industrial parks, and bigger facilities being made. People don't seem to realize that this is affecting quantity and quality of drinking water, and habitats of animals. Even the EPA program is concerned for our future. Our environmental and human health is at risk if we don't find better solutions on how to manage Land use.  https://www.epa.gov/report-environment/land-use