Kenya's deforestation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1192784.stm

This site is a short news article about the deforestation plan in the foot of mount Kenya. This was long before about in 2001 before the elections. After the deforestation the government would plan on putting settlements there for the people to live. However, this plan was criticized and died out eventually. The fact that this plan was made before the elections shows that the government needed support from people about the upcoming elections and this act was not actually for the people. Also, the Minister who came about with the plan was not apologetic and said that he was doing what should have been done ten years ago. This adds on to the point that he had no intention to conserve and protect nature, but only minded in the upcoming elections and the support from the people in Kenya. He even added on by saying that the plan was a way of protecting the forest. I really don't see how deforestation in a way of protecting the forest. This is so hypocritical! This article shows that the Kenyan government was unstable at that particular time and that some people were depending more on the short-term benefits rather than the long-term benefits because they were looking to cut down trees for settlements instead of using them for fresh air reducing the carbon in the atmosphere, which China needs a lot.

Environment in New Delhi

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/asia/indias-air-pollution-rivals-china-as-worlds-deadliest.html?_r=0

This article almost continues my other blog post about the pollution in China. It has lots of opinionated quotes about the pollution in Asia, Europe, and America. The author seems to be positive about the environmental control in America and Europe, however, not in Asia. Europe and America are improving in keeping the environment safe and sound, but Asia is somewhat unstable in controlling pollution. First, pollution was at its highest in China but it seems like the problem of pollution has shifted to India as well. However, China is improving in keeping the environment clean now. Also, the Indian people are using China's method of reducing the pollution by restricting fireworks or using them only at certain times. China used to be the most dangerous place to be because of pollution, but now it changed to New Delhi. It seems like the government of India aren't organized enough to enforce the essential laws that would improve the health of the people in a highly polluted place. It also seems like the people don't follow the law, even though they are enforced by the government since it says that the burning of crops, which was banned by the government, still continued. It doesn't seem like an organized country and it seems like the people don't care. From this I learned that if people are ignorant of pollution now, they will be ignorant in the future too. Just like in some places in Africa, people throw trash out car windows and there is trash everywhere. Just like a habit becoming character, this might bring hardships later on with pollution in Africa. It would be best if we stop it now not then.

China's football league

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/01/football/china-european-transfer-deadline-day-football/index.html


This site talks about the Chinese Super League and how the Chinese spent millions of money just to win the World Cup. The Chinese president is supportive to this and he is the main character that put this plan into play. China's president Xi Jinping is wanting his country to be a football superpower. I think this is similar to the arms race because countries are competing with each other about how good they are and are wanting to be the superpower. Except that this is a more safer and is not competing with weapons or anything, but their abilities and football skills. I think competition is a good thing but China has crossed the line to where they are too desperate to win and are making discreditable choices. This site says that China used more that $100 million signing big Brazilian names like Oscar and Hulk. I think that this was not necessary and it is shameful in a way that China's president thinks that the Chinese players are not good enough to win the World Cup and he is recruiting overseas players for that reason. This would be outrageous to the Chinese players because they are giving their best and recruiting overseas players degrades the Chinese players quite a bit. All this spending wasn't necessary and it would have been better if the president used that money to rebuild China and make it a better place to live.