Oil development's impact on the world

Today I am writing on the three questions given to me through my social textbook. The first Question asks me to research and write about an oil spill or disaster in Alberta. The big impact this has had on the environment is the birds like ducks its killing in one day five hundred ducks died because they landed on an oil filled lake. This is one of many natural disasters caused in Alberta by the oil sands and the gathering of oil from them. Alberta’s environment concerns have not been approved to much by the world because we harvest the oil and other natural resources in dirty but quick and cheap way. We are thought to not try and go along with the world and try to make the world cleaner. This may be true, we have not signed certain agreement to make our environment cleaner. The world, especially the USA, look at us as the country that needs to show poorer countries how the harvest natural resources and still keep our environment clean and nice to live in. We as Canadians and Albertans’ are failing to do this. This is why the world looks done on our means to do stuff like harvest oil.

The next question asks me to write questions that I think I would ask when talking about how conserving the environment will effect the environment. I will focus on preserving the environment rather than exploiting it as much as possible. Question #1 Should we cut back on how many natural resources we exploit? Questions #2 How will preserving natural resources in order to improve the environment effect our economy? Question #3 Will it cause our taxes to go up? Question #4 Are people willing to pay extra money to keep the environment cleaner? Question #5 Are people willing to give up traditional ways to make money and live to clean our planet? Question #6 Are there new ways to not use thing natural gas? Question #7 What will this cause in the short term? Question #8 How will this help us in the log term? Question #9 Who will benefit from preserving the earths natural resources? Question #10 How do we live with less resources? Here are my ten Questions. These questions to me get to the point and ask for a solution to be found. There are many things that need to be thought of when it comes to cutting back on natural resources. To me the biggest thing is that we aren’t willing to give up our traditional and easy ways of doing things. If we want to save resources we need to discard some traditional ways of doing things. This is my answer to Question #2.

Knowledge Economy in Canada

I will be writing about what a knowledge economy is and what Canada does knowledge economy wise. There are some big things being predicted to occur in Canada because of this knowledge economy. Through this essay I will write the facts and my opinion on these facts.

First the definition of a knowledge economy is the use of knowledge to produce economic benefits. This economic idea became popular in New Zealand in the 1990's. They began using high tech stuff to make the economy better. New Zealand used there education and research institutions to build up and help out there economy. This is really trying to make the most of knowledge and education.

Canada is starting to get to this level. There is a paper predicting that Canada will lose up to two million jobs. They are predicting that an additional 2.4 million knowledge workers and 3.3 million manufacturing production employees will be affected by the competition caused by the knowledge economy. This is a major loss for the jobs for Canadians in are own country Canada.

There are also predictions that things are going to be OK for the economy and for jobs for Canadians. For the most there is an agreement that in the long run Canadians will benefit highly from the knowledge economy. There is a prediction that 29 % of the Canadian employees will benefit immediately. To me though this is not enough there still are to many people who are losing from this though.

I personally don't think this is a good thing for my generation but for my generations kids it will be great. I don't like how many fobs may be made unavailable to me. I personally will look down on the knowledge economy.

Online Questions on Dangerous Jobs

I am trying to become a meteorologist when I get older. I find how the weather changes so fast, it very exciting to me. I like trying to predict the way the weather will pan out. It is very hard to because it changes so much. If i cant get into weather I will try something along the lines of hydrology or plants. This science that has to do with the natural world just interests me.

Jobs I would least like to do are things like along the line of teaching or something that involves trying to help explain to people or trying to solve other peoples problems. I also would not want to own my own business.

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

I am writing on the World Bank and Monetary Fund. The purpose of these organizations are to help fund give financial assistance to countries that need the assistance. The world bank helps loan money to countries to help these countries make there health system and education system better. These countries usually really are in need of a loan, they usually need the money to help the people in the country to achieve the basic needs of life.
The International Monetary Fund is there to help a country build up its economy by trying to secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment, and reduce poverty. This International Monetary Fund helps a country more through trying to create a better economy and help the country make there own money. This organization does not meet the immediate problems as fast as the World Bank does but in the long run they do more in a less expensive way that the World Bank does

Next I will talk about if these countries are actually benefiting the countries they say they are helping. In the report Assessing World Bank Support for Trade they concluded that the World bank spent $38 billion financing trade programs since 1986. They concluded this helped to open markets but had not been effective in increasing exports and growth reducing poverty. The organization is causing inflation or higher interest rates.
The International Monetary Fund had been charge with accusations of supporting capitalist military dictatorships that are supportive to European and American corporations. They are also said to be creating higher government taxes to pay off government debt or cutting social programs. This contradicts what they are there for. They are there to improve the government social programs to help for fill the basic needs of the people. Does this make them just like another government sucking money from people. They also are said to be funding evil governments and there armies to allow them to take more control of the people.

There are a lot of skeletons in these organizations closets. I am personally wondering how much help these organizations are actually giving to these countries that are in poverty. I wonder if there making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Paper on The Euroepean Unoin and what affects it has on the World

The European Union is a large agreement make pay most of the countries in Europe. This association is responsible for 20% of the worlds imports and exports while it only has 7% of the worlds population. This is amassing there is tonnes of stuff sold and bought by a substantially lower amount of people. This Union involves 25 countries all of these countries have at least 50% of there countries trade in the EU. These countries are definitely majorly affected by the European Union. The European Union has brought the most prosperous times even seen in Europe. It brought Europe out of there major debt made by the second world war. Tonnes of money and goods are passed around the world by this Union. On the other side this Union has a lot of hard to find bad things it does to. According to sources the EU is forced the people of east Europe the have to come west and seek better fobs and more money. The EU is sucking precious talent away from the east thus causing lack of people able to do certain jobs in the east this. There is to many people in the west able to jobs. The west is getting swamped people trying to get skilled jobs.

I personally think to fix these problems they need to get rid of some of those eastern countries they are just hurting themselves and everyone else. They need to try and keep there own skilled workers and build there own economy this would be the best thing for the smaller east economies.

I do not believe it would be the best thing for North America. We do not need a North American trade union its useless. I personally think that what were doing right now is enough. The economy may not be booming right now but for the most part we have enough money. I also think that a North American Union would give USA a tighter grip over North America. I think that they already have enough of a grip over North America. Also I think that more and more of the talented workers from Canada would go to USA and work there.

These are my thought on the European union and other questions associated with. Personal I don't believe it to be a great thing. It might be good for the major counties but the lower ones get hurt by it more than they gain.