Introduction

In the last few years pollution has increased because of technology and development. Nowadays Pollution started to cause lots of problems to the environment and human beings Because of that many organizations have started some campaigns to save the planet from the pollution like building new cities which will be without any kind pollution. I am glad to have one of the first cool cities here in my country which is called Masder it will be CO2 free city and they will use only solar energy. In my blog I will write about cool city and about our carbon foot print and I will try to be a critical thinker while I think and write about my researches.

An Inconvenient Truth

In this movie Al Gore discusses the scientific knowledge of climate change and gives some information to let people know that global warming is one of the biggest problems. The amount of the carbon dioxide has increased in the environment and this make the temperature very high. Al Gore said that there are many harmful industries which affect badly the atmosphere. The high temperature causes glacier to melt which help people need to drink the fresh water, irrigation, plants and animals. Also global warming could cause damage to the world and especially to the nature, for example when the glaciers melt by the heat of the global warming it has a bad effect on the sea because it's increase the sea level.

Critical Thinking

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Indoor sea japan

Imagine a beach where the sky is always blue, it’s never too hot or cold, the water isn’t filled with salt and pollution, and the surf is always perfect - welcome to Ocean Dome, the world’s only indoor beach. Amazing photos.

Conflict Diamonds

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Lebanon

Lebanon is one of the most beautiful countries in the Middle East although they had war with Israel many times. This is the tourism century for Lebanon, as it received many people from all around the world due to plenty of nice place, beaches, mountains and museums to visit. Beirut is the capital of Lebanon; it's famous in fashion and shows. It was called the land of mile and honey in the Bible also the nickname was Paris of the East. It located between five countries Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Cyprus. There are 17 religions in Lebanon most of them are Muslim and Christians. Arabic, French and English are the languages officially recognized in Lebanon.

1943 was the day that Lebanon became independent when France gave the government to the Lebanese. Balance of power was for Christians and little for Muslim. In 1948 100.00 Palestinians were evicted from Israel and here starts the attraction between Muslim and Christians. In 1975, tensions boiled over when some members of a radical Christian group attacked and killed a bus full of Palestinians in downtown Beirut. Because of that Syria sent 20.000 troops to save people from each other. In this tension 2000 Palestinians were killed. In addition, Lebanon cost was between 150,000 and 200,000 of citizens who died in the civil war. Also about 300,000 were wounded also quarter of the population left to the near countries like Gulf and Egypt. At that time economy was affected quite a lot because of war and it was paralyzed for 4 years. Finally, people in Lebanon opened new page to live together and forgot the past and they started building Lebanon again with the help of some business men from the Arab countries.Now Lebanon is trying to return back as in the past to be Paris of East again but there are some problems that needs to be solved like the pollution and traffic.

Sex Change operation

Ali Askar is example of many people in Iran planning to have sex change. His father threatened to kill him if he went ahead with the surgery but for Ali it was very hard for him to live as a boy because of his sexuality. But Iran has allowed this kind of operation since 1979 .He did the operation and become a woman. In my opinion this article mentions a very important case that most of people don’t know about it. I think it's really painful for those with this problem and this operation solves their problems.