Siberian Mammoth Tusks

 Karl Gorokhov was mammoth tusk hunting in Siberia, when he was walking and tripped on the tip of a tusk sitting out of the ground. It took him about 24 hours to dig up the tusk, it was 150 pounds and in near perfect condition, if he gets it home can can get more than $60,000. As a kid he remembers seeing rotting tusks on the river bank, but people believed it was bad luck to disturb them, thinking they came from giant mole creatures underground.

The tusks are worth the risk. Although others have rushed in to score on tusks Karl is always ahead of them. As the permafrost starts to thaw mammoth tusks start to kind of stick out and he can get them.

Laundry Fluff- Polluting Oceans EVERYWHERE! (dun dun dun)

Since 1940 shed of synthetic microscopic plastic fibers make their way through sewage treatment systems and into oceans. This synthetic lint makes its way through sewage treatment systems and into oceans all around the world., with the potential to harm marine life. No beach is free of colorful synthetic lint, the most contaminated samples came from areas with the most human population, suggesting the people were the source of the lint.

 Your clothes may seem all innocent and harmless but really, that sweater you are wearing is DEADLY... to ocean animals that is.Filter feeding mussels will consume these little particles and and they will then enter the bloodstream. If all fish take these in they will eventually end up in us, from eating the fish.

Graveyards

Graveyards are a good thing now but what about in the future? In about sixty to seventy years they wont be so attractive, they will be falling apart and in ruins. Even if the caretakers tend to them, over the years the grave stones and memorials will just fall apart.

Cremation is the best way to go for more than one reason. Cremation saves a lot of space and the families can keep their loved ones with them. If the family were to move, they aren't going to move the bodies with them, but if they are cremated then they can. Plus, graveyards creep a lot of people out!!

Building the Pipeline (dun dun dun)

We originally signed a treaty with Mexico to give them one third the water in the Colorado river. We are now breaking that treaty. Mexico is getting far less than the amount promised to  them. Once the river actually reaches Mexico its about 8 feet wide. A pipeline is wanted to help get more water into Mexico.

The pipe would run between Denver and Leavenworth. Most people think the idea of running a pipeline to save water is a good idea but a lot of people dont. BUt we agreed with Mexico to give them water and we aren't, but we should be.

Water Wars

Every minute 7 people die from bad water, or no water. Some countries have more people than they do water, some are the opposite South America being one of them. The Guarani aquifer in South America could provide 100 liters of water a day to 5.5 billion people for 200. Asia has 60% of the world population and only 36% of the worlds water, SOuth America has 6% of the worlds population and 26% of the worlds water. Some of the places with the worst water are, Belgium, and Morocco.

Over 1.3 billion people have no access to clean water. At least 2.2 million people die annually from diseases related to poor sanitation and contaminated drinking water. The United Nations estimate the world's per capita water supply will drop by 1/3in the next 20 years. The countries with the best water are Finland, Canada, New Zealand, UK, and Japan.

In areas with rapildly growing populationsthe water may be running low because there are so many people taking it. It becomes a problem when you have more people than you do water. It has become obvious that larger populated areas dont have enough water and lower populated areas have more than enough water.

There have been more than 1,831 water related interactions between countries in the past 50 years. only 21 actually involved military violence. There are very few places where water-poor countries can attacke water-rich countries. Water sortages will most likely resort in violence.

Not enough physicians

        In the U.S. the amount of physicians is decreasing but the demand for them is increasing. The population is growing and people are living longer, but if they get sick or injured there might not be enough doctors in the hospital to take care of them. People aren't going to want to go to hospitals if they aren't going to be cared for very well, and if they are in critical condition and don't get taken care of they could die.

        The nurses and doctors usually have few that they are personally taking care of at one time and could get tired or overwhelmed from having too many people and running around to all of them. In our society people like to sue doctors if they don't get what they want and because of that college students don't want to become doctors and get sued.

Horse Meat

   I think it shouldn't be legal to mix horse meat in with with regular hamburger, simply because a lot of people wouldn't eat it. Some people don't like the idea of eating horse meat even though they wouldn't be able to tell if they didn't know.

   Eating horse is like eating a dog, or a cat, people in America just don't do that, we find it wrong, and consider it cruel. It's even worse if people are eating it without knowing.