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=**Environment**=



Mali - Africa
Generally speaking, the human experience is very similar around the world, but in some regions there are extreme conditions that cause unique impacts upon individuals. With each individual’s human experience, countries from all around the world go through all the same thoughts, emotions, and ideas.

One of the biggest issues throughout the world is climate change. Climate change itself is a result from too many greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, exhaust fumes, and industries releasing poisonous gases. For example, in China there have been many droughts destroying crops and farmer’s agriculture. This similar environmental threat threatens millions of people in Africa. In Mali, water scarcity threatens thousands of lives. Many children die of diarrheal diseases because they drink the only filthy water they can find. Children in Mali are excited and happy to have water tanks in their school to wash their hands after going to the bathroom. All these children want is water, something here in America we are take for granted. In Iran, pollution of the capital city, Tehran, kills hundreds of lives because of the hazardous air the Iranians breathe in every day. For all these people throughout the world, this is normal, and experiencing this deadly environmental factors are just apart of their daily lives. The air pollution created in Tehran is apart of global interdependence because many goods that are exported throughout the world are produced here. The deforestation in Brazil is a result of countries wanting to build homes and furniture out of Brazil’s fine wood which is an example of global interdependence. Destruction of the Amazon forests is breaking up the diverse cultures of the regions of Brazil and making residents move and leave their land to have the forests be plowed. This just doesn’t leave people homeless, but also endangers thousands of animals and takes away their habitats. In China, floods from the frequent climate change leave people homeless also, similar to the situations in Brazil. The flooding can contaminate the rivers when the soil from the farmland, which pollutes people’s drinking water and water used for farming. Just like Mali, the people can cause many people to have infectious diseases and kill thousands like the hazardous air in Iran.

Our world is connected as one. Whether it is just across the street or on the other side of hemisphere, all people want to feel safe and have hope in a positive economy. The people living in Mali and Iran (Tehran especially) do not have much hope. They are not safe and are lost in the blur of their countries health concerns. These health concerns are very dangerous and if not treated or fixed can quickly kill people. In China, they have lost their hope trying to fight the floods that rip apart there houses, having to start from scratch. In Brazil mudslides and flooding from the deforestation are destroying families home. In the human experience, all these people living in these areas have a right to feel the comfort of security and safety in themselves and their country,but because of their environmental extremities they are left with anger, fear, and despair.