Vanessa46

====I think that child mortality is a very important problem in the world, in particular in poor countries. In fact if we think that 40% of under-five deaths take place in only Nigeria, India and Congo, we understand how important this problem is. It is really unacceptable that every year 8.8 million children die before their fifth birthday.==== ====There are for sure some possible improvements, as the Unicef said, and so all the countries should do something together. For example they could send medicines, clean water, food, vaccination because it is not possible that still nowadays there are children that die for malaria, HIV, Aids or because they don’t have food and/or water.==== ====In fact it is not fair that there are children over the world with a computer, playstation, tv etc but on the other hand there are children as i said that die before their fifth birthday for diseases and no good nutrition. This fact shows that if we really want to stop this problem we can, but we should do it all together so that this children can have a future, go to school, study, have a good job and a family.====

I agree on the idea that the tax money should be spent on helping people to prevent the H1N1, instead of using all the money to just promote stimulus plan.
====It is not possible that of $6.5 million that the government has to avoid the infection $4.5 million are used on advertisements in newspaper, public transit and on the web and $2 million to radio sports.==== ====All this amount of money the government should spend it in finding a good vaccination or to help people to cure H1N1 if they have it or to try to prevent the spread of the virus all over the world. If you just use all the money for advertisements there won’t be money left for all these things.==== ====But this doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t tell people, with advertisements, how important it is too prevent the spread of this virus and telling them some things to do to prevent from getting it; the most important thing is that they don't use so much money doing it.====

====The G-20 is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies. There are involved 19 countries plus the European Union: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, UK, USA and European Union. There are eight of those countries that are also members of the G-8: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, UK and USA.==== ====The G-20 is going to meet at Pittsburgh on Thursday and Friday to make new rules. Last year all the world had an economic crisis and now the G-20 is working on new rules to solve this problem. I think that it is a good idea to talk about it because the whole world had had a lot of problems after this economy crisis.==== ====Another topic that they will talk about is if China and India should be better represented and I think it’s a good idea because they are two countries that are developing so fast and they will become two big powers.====

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1931616,00.html
====As we all know China is the country with the highest carbon emissions in the world. I think that it is a great idea to use wind as a source of energy. This will bring less pollution and so less global warming. I really hope this plan is going to work and that it could be a great example for the other countries. In fact if every country uses solar power we would solve a lot of global issues, for instance global warming pollution and lots more. To use solar power countries need a lot of money but i really think it's worth it because it will bring so many positive results that everyone will realize it.====

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====I agree with the idea of reforming the world's financial system to prevent another credit crisis because when we had the financial crisis last year we had a lot of problems, a lot of banks went bankruptcy and all the countries's economy were in danger.I'm glade that everyone agreed on " we don't want the same causes to produce the same effects in future". Probably there are going to be radical changes, but if these changes will be useful for the future why shouldn't we do them?On the other hand I also agree with Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commision that said that the climate change problem doesn't disappear because of the financial crisis. In fact I think that nothing should make the climate change problem disappear because it's a really important global issue and we should solve it as soon as possible.====

====The conference in Copenhagen will be an important conference because the topic is one of the biggest global issue: Climate change. They will try to find a solution to this problem and they will make an agreement. As Lomborg said panic is not a good start because it will lead to poor policies. If they make wrong policies they won't fix the problem and they will waste only a lot of money. They should find a good solution that will really help the planet or else the problem will always become worse and the consequences will be always worse too. In the article it says: "Some may want to wait for the discount factor (of investing in established technology) but I liken it to being told you have five years to live ... do you buy the medicine now, or do you wait four years for the price of the medicine to go down?" Flannery said.==== ====Well I think that we should invest in established technology because if we wait the problem get worse and it will be also more difficult to find a solution so will would need more money. We shouldn't underestimate this problem and nowadays everybody is aware of the consequences.====

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8379957.stm
Obama Climate Summit Attendance Welcomed in Europe:

====I think that it's a great thing that President Obama will attend Copenhagen conference because it will be a very important conference and the more leaders they are going to be the better is going to be. They are going to take very important decisions about the climate change, that lately it's a really important global issue. The article says that by 2020 there will be 17% cut in carbon emissions, by 2025 30%, by 2030 42% and by 2050 83%. If it's true we are on the right track and we will solve this problem. For a better result all the countries should work together and find global solutions. The two most involved countries are China and America so for a good result they should put a lot of effort into it.====

====As the article says in some countries the cases of H1N1 decrease but the availability increase. The US had been able to order 54.1 million doses of H1N1 vaccine so far so a lot of people will be able to take this new vaccine. I think that a lot of people are not still sure to take the vaccine because it is a new vaccine and it is still experimental. Probably a lot of people are scared because they still don't know the consequences, so they don't know if doing the vaccine is useful or not. Some people say to do it because it is better to be protected while other people say to don't do it because it not knowing the consequences we don't know if it's dangerous or not for us. They also say that if your immune system is good and you get the swine flu it's just as getting the seasonal flu. I think that people are confused and not sure who to believe to.====

 
