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Essay 4: Climate Action

  There is no country that is not experiencing the drastic effects of climate change Greenhouse gas emissions are more than 50 percent higher than in 1990. Global warming is causing long-lasting changes to our climate system, which threatens irreversible consequences if we do not act. I find that global warming is a serious issue, although second to the possibility of nuclear war, and that it could potentially destroy our way of life and planet as we know it. Note I did not say destroy Earth because that would be too extreme; there will likely be some organisms or even humans left to rebuild in the rubble. However, if left unchecked, it can and will trigger a disaster. If the temperature goes up another few degree, methane pockets underneath the oceans will be able to burst. Also, large amounts of methane hidden under ice, with the ice gone, will be able to emerge. Methane, CH4, is an even stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, somewhere on the scale of ten times stronger. And after that th
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Essay 3: Road to No Poverty

  The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all”. It was set in 2015 by United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030. Among those goals, the first goal is “No Poverty” which is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere. Poverty is the state of not having enough material possessions or income to meet the basic needs of a person for a minimum standard of living. Despite all technologies and developments that we have built, there are still many families around the globe, living in poverty. Recent estimates for global poverty are that 9.2% of the world, or 689 million people are living in extreme poverty on $1.90 or less a day, according to the World Bank. However, the rate of poverty in Malaysia shows an improvement in 2019 compared to 2016. This signs us that we can actually overcome this matter though it is
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Essay 2: Life Blow Water

  The ocean covers three quarters of the Earth’s surface and represents 99 percent of the living space on the planet by volume. Now imagine how many living things are there in the ocean compared to us on the surface. What I want to emphasize is that lives below water are as much important as land dwellers’. The world’s oceans – their temperature, chemistry, current and life – drive global systems that make the Earth habitable for humankind. How we manage this vital resource is essential for humanity as a whole, and a counterbalance for the effect of climate change.             Our obsession towards industries’ developments causes us to overlook this matter. As results, we have subconsciously drained our natural resources, as well as exploited the surrounding natural environment which have affected not just us human, but also animals especially below water. Water contamination is one of the outcomes of human activities such as urbanization, industrialization, and agricultural activiti
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Essay 1: Good Health and Wellbeing

  Health is the centre of life. Taking care of it must and should always be our priority before anything else but as the days go by, in this modern era where technological advancement being our main goal, we always overlooked the fact that our country was and still is facing major problems in term of healthcare. Every year, more than 27000 of Malaysians are killed by tobacco-caused disease. Despite the frightening numbers, more than 44000 children aged between 10 and 14 years old, and 4.5 million adults continue to use tobacco every single day. Even though we could all agree that smoking causes harm way more than its so-called benefits, the number of smokers does not seem like it would decrease in the near future.             Smoking leads many diseases and disabilities. It also harms almost every single organ of the body. Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronch
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