GP 1st Midterm Review

​The world’s population is young: 42 per cent of people are under the age of 25. In South Asia and Sub‑Saharan Africa, the number of people aged 12–24 has risen to over 525 million. Now, more than half of the people in the world are under 30 years old. In every continent except Europe there are more people under the age of 15 than over the age of 65.In 2018, only 17.3 per cent of the world’s population was over the age of 55.

• 42 per cent.

​Young people care about the future! I know that many older people think that young people have badly behaved. They say that young people are losing their values, do not work hard, and break the law. Media headlines often report sensational stories about young people and exaggerate their criminal behavior. But a recent United Nations (UN) report tells a different story. The UN World Youth Report of 2018 highlights that young people want to be involved in shaping the future. The UN says that young people are central to achieving a fair, stable, and sustainable society. Young people want their voices to be heard. They want to make a difference and to make the world a better place. They should not be ignored. After all, they are the future! Recent protest marches about climate change by school children in the UK and Scandinavia are further evidence that young people do care. Extract from a magazine article in Europe in 2019

• ​War

• ​Ensuring access to secondary education.

• ​living with conflict

• ​A lack of government spending on young people.

• ​inequality

• ​poverty

• ​creating sustainable development.

• ​finding good quality employment

• ​lack of political representation for young people.

​Poem - Destroying our environment

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​​Broken bottles and sharp pieces of glass

Folded up newspapers thrown on the grass

Pouring out concrete and chopping down trees

This is the environment all around me

​Insecticides and chemicals sprayed over food It’s only ourselves that we delude

About the cars that do damage

And the garbage we mismanage

​Overfishing, oil spills, and coal mining add to the issue caused by humans, so how to continue?

There has to be something that we can do

Like raise awareness amongst all of you

• ​littering

• ​deforestation

• ​pollution

• ​coal mining

• ​oil spills

•  overfishing​

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A course of action would be for an individual to take their bottles/glass back to shops. This would ensure that glass containers didn’t end up broken in the streets and in rivers and oceans causing damage to wildlife

Littering is the most damaging. When we carelessly throw away plastic bags and all our rubbish, it has to go somewhere, and often it ends up in drains and then in the river or ocean where it might do damage to wildlife and threaten biodiversity and the ecosystem. This could cause catastrophic damage if everyone in the world were to throw away all their litter whereas oil spills are not an everyday occurrence.

Cars emit carbon dioxide in the form of exhaust fumes thereby contributing to global warming. There’s also the oil needed to keep cars moving and drilling for oil has significant environmental consequences as well such building new roads for its transportation, which are often through forests so deforestation is necessary and marine drilling can result in oil spills which kills marine life.