HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN OUR PLANET REALLY SUPPORT?

HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN OUR PLANET REALLY SUPPORT?

We often hear people citing overpopulation as the single biggest threat to the Earth. But can we really single out population growth in this way? Are there really too many people on our planet? It's clear that on the Earth there's so much space (and not to mention the resources that can support a human population) So a growing human population must pose some kind of a threat to the wellbeing of planet Earth, mustn't it? Not necessarily. As Gandhi said there is enough for everyone in the world, but not enough for everyone's greed, so if we think about this quote we can arribe that if we don't abuse of the world maybe we could have enough resources for everyone, but that's not how the Earth is going.The number of "modern human beings"  on Earth has been comparatively small until very recently. Just 10,000 years ago there might have been no more than a few million people on the planet. As it stands now, though, the world's population is over 7.3 billion. According to United Nations predictions it could reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, and over 11 billion by 2100. Population growth has been so fast that there is no real precedent we can turn to for evidence about the possible consequences. So a world with a human population of 11 billion might put comparatively little extra strain on our planet's resources. But the world is changing. The real concern would be if the people living in these areas decided to demand the lifestyles and consumption rates currently considered normal in high-income nations; something many would argue is only fair. If they do, the impact of urban population growth could be much larger. It is not the rise in population by itself that is the problem, but rather the even more fast rise in global consumption (which of course is unevenly distributed). By this reason there needs to be a fundamental change in the core values of developed societies: away from an emphasis on material wealth, and towards a model where individual and societal well-being are considered most important. Even if those changes finally occurred, it seems unlikely that our planet could really sustain a population of 11 billion. So they suggests that we should stabilise the global population, hopefully at around nine billion, and then begin a long, slow trend of decreasing population. That means reducing fertility rates.

Vocabulary (wordreference) :

- growth (creixement)

- resources (recursos)

- greed (avaricia)

- concern (preocupació)

- unevenly (desigualment)

News paper page:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160311-how-many-people-can-our-planet-really-support

What was agreed as part of the Paris climate deal?

What was agreed as part of the Paris climate deal?

The deal unites all the world's nations in a single agreement on tackling climate change for the first time in history. They think that coming to a consensus among nearly 200 countries on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions is considered like "histoirc movement". The Kyoto Protocol set in 1997 a protocol that make other countries not to produce so many contamination but some countries like US didn't want to accept. However, cientist say that the Paris accord must be strengthened if it  have any change to stop the dangerous climate change. 

I think that it's such a positive deal, I mean it can only be favorable for the habitants of this different countries and nations and it's a new way to help the world and not to destroy them, because if we do't think about our plante now what will happened in the future? 
So I think it's a positive moment and if now we have the 




vocabulary (wordreference): 

- consensus (opinión general)
- greenhouse (hivernacle)
- deal (tracte)



news paper link:

 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35073297

opinion essay

ADOPT INSTEAD OF BUY?

A lot of people says if you don't know how to love an animal, you will not know how to love a person, having a pet can make you a better person, can make you be more responsable, etc. But wait if you want a dog, it's better to buy or adopt?

First of all you have to think if you will be able to provide a good life to this new friend, he/she will be a new member of you family, after that you may think "and we have to buy or adopt"?
Adopt it's the best way you can complet your family and at the same time you give a better life to a dog, you can help this dog not be afraid of people or believe he/she can be happy in a new home, because there are a lot of dogs living at the streets and with a horrible life so it's a good way to change that and help one of this poor souls.

Buying a dog you just will pay a lot of money and you will promote that poeple can continue giving up their dogs and it's not good to let people do that, for this reason and because the seller will just recive money doing bad things.

Another reason to adopt instead of buy it's because if there is a dog that have been in an animal shelter for a lot of time most of the times they kill the dog.
Adopting  a dog you are doing an amazing work and the adopted dogs are the gratefulest dogs in this world.

protest songs

We have to coment one of the three protest songs, I chose the second one called "Talkin' bout a revolution" by Tracy Chapman.

Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwritter known for some of her hits, she was born in Cleveland on March 30ty of 1964 and she is still alive. I choose this song because it's stile is so similar to a lot of songs I had sing and transmit a lot of diferents emotions. The lyrics of this song talk about what they feel and what a Revolution is about, it's hard to imagine that a lot of people was in that situation but right now, this days in Catalonia we have passsed and still passing days of revolution because we want things ans the governament don't let us, so it's a good protest song for this days.

SWISS ALPS JUNGFRAU-ALETSCH

THE SWISS ALPS JUNGFRAU-ALETSCH

The extension of the natural World Heritage property of Jungfrau - Aletsch - Bietschhorn (first inscribed in 2001), expands the site to the east and west, bringing its surface area up to 82,400 ha., up from 53,900. The site provides an outstanding example of the formation of the High Alps, including the most glaciated part of the mountain range and the largest glacier in Eurasia. It features a wide diversity of ecosystems, including successional stages due particularly to the retreat of glaciers resulting from climate change. The site is of outstanding universal value both for its beauty and for the wealth of information it contains about the formation of mountains and glaciers, as well as ongoing climate change. It is also invaluable in terms of the ecological and biological processes it illustrates, notably through plan succession. Its impressive landscape has played an important role in European art, literature, mountaineering and alpine tourism.

EXPERIENCES

One of my dreams was to go to London and last Febrary finally I could make it reality, so I went to London with my family and it was an amazing experience, We stayed there for three days and we visited all the famous places(M&M's world, London eye, Big Bang...). My family told me that we went there to improve my english so I was a kind of guide and translator and it was so funny!

Another of my dreams was to own a horse and aproximetly a year ago my granny bought me a horse. I learned a lot of things and I learned that if you want soimething you had to work hard and in this way you can reach it. 

When I was little I loved to do ice skateing, so every winter when the ice rink was in Girona all my family went there, so one year I was skateing but I was failling all the times and when it was time to go and had lunch I can't sat on the chair of the restaurant, that was an embarassing moment!

As I always said I want to do a sabatic year, but I know my parents won't let me do it, but it would be an amazing year, I will go to a lot of diferent countries to descober new tradicions, languages, food, culture, etc... and in this way I could learn how to take care of my self and see if I'm a resposable person.

I talked with my family and maybe we can go to Berlin next Febrary, it will be a good travel because we never had been there and I really love to travel and see new places.

If we can't go to Berlin we will go to Ireland, in this way I can finally meet my internet friend Sofia and descober the procedents of the Connemara pony one of my favourite horse breed.

best Italy Photo

sonnet 116 Shakespeare

116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments, love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove.

O no, it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand'ring bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come,

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom:

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Translation: 

116

No posaré impediments a la unió
de ments lleials. L'amor no serà amor
si s'altera davant l'alteració
o el du, qui et deshonora, al deshonor.

No. Sempre és fix. Una marca constant
que mira a la tempesta i no s'atura.
És l'estrella de cada barca errant
que no té preu malgrat tenir una altura.

No és joc del temps l'amor, tot i el compàs
de la falç seva sobre llavi i front.
No s'altera l'amor pel pas fugaç
dels dies, ferm fins al final del món.

Si em demostren que estic equivocat,
jo mai he escrit ni mai ningú ha estimat.

INTERVIEW

Aina: What do you think about Girona?
-Girona, is a very nice old city with an University and Cathedral and I?ll rely like to see you from the river Onyar with these old houses, it's very famous for me.

Mireia: How long have you been in this city?
- In former times I've been here for many weeks and now I'm this week here for holidays, one week.

Aina: Did you go to "El Barri Vell"?
-Yes, you mean the old, barri vell is here, yes I went to the Cathedral and the Narrow Streets, they are very nice to look at.

-Mireia: Do you feel comfotable here in Girona?
-yes, yes it's not so compare to Barcelona. it's not so big, it's better and the people are very friendly here.

-Mireia: And what do you think about the cuisine in Girona?
-The what in Girona?
-Mireia: the cuisine
-cusine? May I look at, cuisine, a the kitchen, sorry, cooking, yes. Yes I like the meals here, food fish here and also the sweet, like xurros, they are very nice, I really like the cuisine here in Girona.

-Mireia: Have you ever been here before?
- Yes, the first time I was here, 20 years ago, and it was very interesting to look how changed, how much changed, the city in the last 20 years.

-Aina: Is Girona similar to your city?
-I come from Germany, from the city of Tubingen and Tubingen is so somehow to Girona,a lso one hundred thousand in habitants and old University, there's and old nucleus it's also similar.

-Mireia: Would you like to live here?
-Dificult, but maybe when I'm old and when I don't have to work anymor in Germany I could imagine to live here.

-Aina: Do you think it's a clean city?
-Not in all places, the center I think it's celan but some of the suburbs there are not so clean I think there are many dust and somehow it's not well arranged in the streets but i think the center is more or less clean.

-Mireia: What do you think it's the best season to visit Girona?
-Best reason to Girona?
-Mireia: Season
-season, season I like the spring, summer I think it's too hot but spring it's very nice to do excurcions, I like to do excursions I'm a photographer so I prefer the spring, spring time.

-Aina: What's your favourite bridge?
-Bridge, well, there are many bridges but this one is very nice to take pictures and so, well I prefer this so I passed this bridge now.

-Mireia: And do you know who designed the red bridge, this bridge?
-No i don't remember sorry

-Thank you for your time
-your welkome, and good luck for the rest of the day
- have a nice day!

here you are the interview:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzZB-CTwBsttN0NPdE5zUG5KaDA/view?usp=sharing

PICTURE ABOUT READING

"Quiet people have the loudest minds"-Stephen King

Jeremy Cowart

Jeremy starts as a painter first. Then he went in a college to study graphic design. Jeremy began taking pictures to bring texture into his design work but before, he realized that photography was his true passion. He founded his own graphic design company, Pixelgrazer, in 2001. In a relatively short amount of time, Jeremy won the respect of artists, photographers, and celebrities. Fot this reason he has taken pictures to a lot of celebrities and famous people and he travelled to six continents taken pictures too.



He also spends his time on community projects. In January 2010, after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Jeremy responded with his “Voices of Haiti” photo, letting the people of Haiti write their own thoughts and prayers. On that day, Jeremy’s “Voices of Haiti” project proved that art can help change the world because ten billion dollars were given to the efford.
He's pictures are original and so diferent at the same time, but he usually do photo shoots.

Sebastiao Salgado's exposition

Sebastiao Salgado is a famous photographer who have made an exposition at Caixaforum of Girona. It was interesting to went there and saw all the amazing pictures that he took in diferent situations, moments and places. It was curious to saw that he always took the pictures useing black and withe tecnic, but my favourite picture was this.

This was my favourite picture of the exposition because I really like feline animals and cheetahs are one of my favorite. When I saw it I can only though what wonderful it was. The way that this animal is looking at Salgado transmet a lot of feelings.

I think it would be so interesting to be at the place of this picture, with this animal and at the same time as Salgado, but it would be so scary too because this is a savage animal and you don't know how is going to react. 

Santiago was so luckly to found this animal and in this way take a magestic picture like this because as I said is a savage animal and you can not control them.

ANGLES AND SHOTS

HIGH ANGLE : Is when the camera looks down on the subject from a high angle and the point of focus often gets "swallowed up" this effect can make the subject seem vulnerable or powerless when applied with the correct mood, setting, and effects.

LOW ANGLE: Is a shot from a camera angle  positioned low on the vertical axis, anywhere below the eye line, looking up.The effect of the low-angle shot is that it makes the subject look strong and powerful. 

SLANTED ANGLE: This shows someone, an object or something from an unnatural point of view. This is usually used at films to show things that only the audience can see.

EYE LEVEL SHOT:  Is the one which the camera is placed at the subject’s height, so if the actor is looking at the lens, he wouldn’t have to look up or down. Eyelevel shots are incredibly common because they are neutral. They often have no dramatic power, they are ideal for romantiuc, comedies and new castings.

AERIAL SHOT: Is a shot of a scene or photo taken from a higher vantage point than what is being filmed. This gives a greater understanding of what is happening in the scene as you get a 360 degree view

CLOSE UP SHOT: Is a type of shot, which tightly frames a person or an object. Close-ups are one of the standard shots used regularly with medium shots and long shots (cinematic techniques). Close-ups display the most detail, but they do not include the broader scene. Moving in to a close-up or away from a close-up is a common type of zooming.

LONG SHOT: Ttypically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings. These are typically shot now using wide angle cameras.  However due to the sheer distance establishing shots and extreme wide shots can use almost any camera type.

MEDIUM SHOT; is a camera angle shot from a medium distance. Are favored in sequences where dialogues or a small group of people are acting, as they give the viewer a partial view of the background  and also show the subjects' facial expressions in the context of their body language.

WIDE SHOT: Includes a lot of visual information for the audience to 'set the scene'. . The subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as comfortably possible.

TWO SHOT: Is a type of shot in which the frame encompasses a view of two people (the subjects). The subjects do not have to be next to each other, and there are many common two-shots which have one subject in the foreground and the other subject in the background. It is very useful if the film is about two people.

POINT OF VIEW: is a short film scene that shows what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera). It is usually established by being positioned between a shot of a character looking at something, and a shot showing the character's reaction (see shot reverse shot). 

JOHANSSON & McCURRY

Erik Johansson is a photographer and retoucher from Sweden based in Pragur, Czech Republic and Sweden. He is working on both personal and commissioned projects with clients all around the world. Erik doesen't capture moments, he captures ideas with the help of his camera and some photoshop he make it look as realistic as possible.


Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporany photographer for more than thirty years. He was born in Philadelphia. After several years of freelance work, he made his first of what would become many trips to India. Travelling with little more than a bag of clothes and another of film, he made his way across the subcontinent, exploring the country with his camera.


The two photographers are amazingly, but so diferent at the same time. Erik Johansson plays with his imagination and then he make the pictures based on it. Steve McCurry plays with the reality of the things, I mean, he projects what he is seeing but at the same time he tries to make us feel like we are all so luky to have the life we have and there are some people that don't have this luck.