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Gore Administration- Spring 2006
Spring 2006
"About time we got a council for human rights."
"It was as if someone took the cankterous old man who complains about "kids nowadays" stereotype and took it to the extreme."
From the winter thaw to the spring, it was a changing and awakening of times. The continued work of the Al Gore Administration cast a shadow as midterms were coming. However, in the meanwhile, Spring would be bringing all sorts of various changed. NASA has been abuzz with various news such as the Mars orbitor and the geysers being discovered over in Enceladus, lighting up a new interest in the stars, especially with the hopes of new technologies and optimism. Europe meanwhile has been getting all sorts of information from their project having been arriving over to Venus. Indeed, the world has been moving ever closer. The United Nations Human Rights Council was established and ground rules and cases were being looked into for the hopes of a better tomorrow and the promise of a bright future for all the young citizens of the world. Perhaps one topic of fascinating discussion among the Council was that of ecorefugees. The idea of refugees being displaced as a result of climate change or ecological disasters. The days of Gore's climate talk being considered fascinating, but not taken wholly seriously are in the past and while still seen sometimes as repetitive, the multiple points and perspectives presented by Gore were engaging and different enough to remind people of the immense scope that climate change would have on lives. Additionally, the centuries of human history and settlements being dictated by the mercy of mercurial climates provided more than enough past wisdom to listen to it. As such, larger areas of interest were examined. This included the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil alongside the indigenous people living in them and their concerns over illegal logging, farming and violence aimed at them. This also was expanded at potential hotspots of trouble, such as the Indian subcontinent or on a more macro scale, on ensuring the next generations would not be burdened with a world in danger. Overall, climate change discussions made their way even to discussions of human rights.
United Nations Human Rights Council lojo
Of course, not everything was necessarily rosy. The Capital Hill Massacre occurring in Seattle, Washington hit headlines, especially with the reactionary motives of the shooter and the initial response by the Seattle Times. Beyond the condolences reaching out, it did spur a cultural backlash though against what the shooter said. Nearly a month after the shooting, the fact his shootings were motivated by his disdain for the behavior of the youth became discovered and became a dark joke of sorts. Additioanlly, the Seattle Times reaction prompted scrutiny, as if the paper was sympathizing with the man's goal or as one pundit put it "an old whackjob with a gun shoots kids because they dance and this newspaper proposes keeping kids from dancing as not agitate the old whackjob..." Perhaps as a result, it did lead to the youth asserting mroe themselves the right to enjoy themselves in dance. Other major news included an umpire strike during Major League Baseball along with some strikes at locations that hire primarily immigrants for better working conditions, especially as more and more revelations on management and behavior is coming into light. Of course, the world turned toward the Pacific once more with the Yokyakarta Earthquake with extensive and extreme damage being done. Unsurprisingly, the world came over to assist in rebuilding and surveying damage. Earthquakes were not considered part of observations regarding disasters like cliamte changes, namely because they are for the most part preventable. However, when discussing earthquakes and shocks, Al Gore did mention that about the only thing that influences earthquakes regaridng human activity was fracking, which in turn caused a further spurn of fossil fuel practices.
A fallen pinnacle from the damaged Prambanan temple
"About time we got a council for human rights."
"It was as if someone took the cankterous old man who complains about "kids nowadays" stereotype and took it to the extreme."
From the winter thaw to the spring, it was a changing and awakening of times. The continued work of the Al Gore Administration cast a shadow as midterms were coming. However, in the meanwhile, Spring would be bringing all sorts of various changed. NASA has been abuzz with various news such as the Mars orbitor and the geysers being discovered over in Enceladus, lighting up a new interest in the stars, especially with the hopes of new technologies and optimism. Europe meanwhile has been getting all sorts of information from their project having been arriving over to Venus. Indeed, the world has been moving ever closer. The United Nations Human Rights Council was established and ground rules and cases were being looked into for the hopes of a better tomorrow and the promise of a bright future for all the young citizens of the world. Perhaps one topic of fascinating discussion among the Council was that of ecorefugees. The idea of refugees being displaced as a result of climate change or ecological disasters. The days of Gore's climate talk being considered fascinating, but not taken wholly seriously are in the past and while still seen sometimes as repetitive, the multiple points and perspectives presented by Gore were engaging and different enough to remind people of the immense scope that climate change would have on lives. Additionally, the centuries of human history and settlements being dictated by the mercy of mercurial climates provided more than enough past wisdom to listen to it. As such, larger areas of interest were examined. This included the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil alongside the indigenous people living in them and their concerns over illegal logging, farming and violence aimed at them. This also was expanded at potential hotspots of trouble, such as the Indian subcontinent or on a more macro scale, on ensuring the next generations would not be burdened with a world in danger. Overall, climate change discussions made their way even to discussions of human rights.
United Nations Human Rights Council lojo
Of course, not everything was necessarily rosy. The Capital Hill Massacre occurring in Seattle, Washington hit headlines, especially with the reactionary motives of the shooter and the initial response by the Seattle Times. Beyond the condolences reaching out, it did spur a cultural backlash though against what the shooter said. Nearly a month after the shooting, the fact his shootings were motivated by his disdain for the behavior of the youth became discovered and became a dark joke of sorts. Additioanlly, the Seattle Times reaction prompted scrutiny, as if the paper was sympathizing with the man's goal or as one pundit put it "an old whackjob with a gun shoots kids because they dance and this newspaper proposes keeping kids from dancing as not agitate the old whackjob..." Perhaps as a result, it did lead to the youth asserting mroe themselves the right to enjoy themselves in dance. Other major news included an umpire strike during Major League Baseball along with some strikes at locations that hire primarily immigrants for better working conditions, especially as more and more revelations on management and behavior is coming into light. Of course, the world turned toward the Pacific once more with the Yokyakarta Earthquake with extensive and extreme damage being done. Unsurprisingly, the world came over to assist in rebuilding and surveying damage. Earthquakes were not considered part of observations regarding disasters like cliamte changes, namely because they are for the most part preventable. However, when discussing earthquakes and shocks, Al Gore did mention that about the only thing that influences earthquakes regaridng human activity was fracking, which in turn caused a further spurn of fossil fuel practices.
A fallen pinnacle from the damaged Prambanan temple
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