“‘Good riddance,’” says Billy Beede, the main character of Suzan-Lori Parks’s novel Getting Mother’s Body, after watching her mother, Willa Mae Beede, die from an attempted abortion (Parks 37, 112). But six years later, Billy is still not “rid” of her mother; she is haunted by Willa Mae’s words and lifestyle, and by the fear of following in her footsteps. Meanwhile, Billy’s childless aunt and uncle have tried to raise her as their own, but Willa Mae stands between them.

"Global warming is an expensive hoax!" tweeted the united States president elect, Donald Trump. What does this mean for the climate safety in American and around the world. As the leading nation in natural resource consumption, The United States has caused much harm to the global enviroment and has contributed to the warming. While denying the ever growing problem of climate change might be easier for Donald, the rest of the world is suffering from our unsustanable practices.

This article discusses Britain's plan to close all of its power plants by 2025, as part of the government's mission to phase out fossil fuels. Their parliment will also be given monetary incentives for renewable energy intiatives, such as offshore windfarms. These moves have been widely praised by environmental groups, although some feel the government should be taking bolder actions and closing the plants more quickly.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/09/britains-last-coal-power-plants-to-close-by-2025

The meeting holding on November 18th is going to put Paris Climate Change Agreement, which requires each coutry to "[hold] the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 degrees [Celsius] above pre-industrial levels," into action. Some finance and technology related problem will be discussed in order to determine the allocation of each country's effort. As National Security Council, John Morton, stated in the news, although the outcome of the election could affect "how quickly the U.S. moves [to limit emissions] ... the international community is moving forward."

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The article I found talked about Trump and how the cabinet he is choosing is filled with men who have fought against enviromental protections and are anti-regulations. He is possibly bringing in an oil tycoon and other men who have a history of fighting against regulations that help preserve the enviroment. Basically setting up the U.S. as a giant unregulated smog machine that will eventually harm the enviroment to the point of our own exctintion. Yay me that I get to live here while he does it. I could not be more excited. 

Last year in December, Obama had passed banned microbeads that are inside cleansers and shower gels. These beads do not dissolved because they are plastic therefore, when they wash down your drain and in the ocean fish are mistaking them food for food, eating them, and dying. Microbeads had also contributed to a greater increase in microplastic pollution, and could not exactly be cleaned out of the ocean due to is extra small size. 

This article said that India has the carbon capture technology to help reduce the release of CO2 emission into the air.  The UK gave $4.2 million and the US $3 million to the Carbon Clean Solutions to help develop the solvents to capture the carbon dioxide from a power plant or industrial gases.  It has yet to be used in other parts of the world but is a rising discussion to help decrease emissions.

I am a HUGE Chappelle fan. This Stand-Up was funny and yet so needed. His genuisis truly  unmatched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--IS0XiNdpk

On May 12, 2016 the EPA released three final rules targeting "emissions of methane, smogforming volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, reconstructed and modified oil and gas sources". These rules fall under the "Climate Action Plan: Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions and the Clean Air Act".

I chose the classroom because of the forecasted probability of rain on that day and because I had no where else in mind that we could site our class.