Week 8

This week Team Wolfpack presented the class Chapter 7 from the Plan B text; Eradicating Poverty and Stabilizing Population. This chapter informed us about ways to improve the lives of individuals by taking actions as a population, such as education & ways to reduce poverty and hunger. 

Cesar: "I was surprised at the excellent achievements some countries, like China, have done and at the amount of people that they have been able to lift out of poverty. While we still have a large number of nations and societies living in extreme poverty, it can be relieving to know that we have the power, as humans, to take action and make decisions towards a better life".

Joe: "I liked the movie on self-sufficient urban Homestead. I would like to do something like that some day: grow my own food, use alternative energy, basically drop out of modern society"

Katie: "For our final presentation we discussed the world should help reduce poverty and stabilize the population. We learned that through education, HIV protection, school lunch programs, adult education programs, and the WIC program we could help less fortunate countries become stronger and able to stand on their own without so much help from stronger power house countries like the United States". 
Vanessa: "This week our team presented solutions to health issues that can further push us into a smarter, health conscious future. For instance, we must educate the population more about AIDS prevention to drop the percentage of infected individuals below the number of deaths. Thus, there would be less individuals who would be capable of infecting others. We must also cut down smoking by implementing regulations as higher sales tax in more countries so that it will be less appealing to purchase. Small things like this can change the amount of physical health issues humans inflict on themselves."