Poverty

Poverty sucks - do you understand what it means and how millions of people around the world miss out on basic things we take for granted every day?
One of my cool teacher friends showed me this site - it's a game that helps you understand a bit more about poverty in our globalised world....

http://www.freepoverty.com/

Really it's about knowing geography so Hamiltron is th eman to beat.
On my first go I got donated 137 cups of water but i missed the first choice cos i didn't know what to do. See if you can beat me. :-)

Famine is another terrible thing, hence the highly distressing photograph - sorry if it's too awful for you, but ignorance is bliss and people need help.

Clustrmap geography

Clustrmap analysis show that several places in the world have now registered over 100 viewers. can you tell me the names of the cities where we have more than 100 viewers?

hotspots

do you know your world news?
does politics and international relations tickle your fancy?
are you a geographer?

where would you say there are political hotspots to watch out for?

today we discussed Pakistan and the state of emergency which General Musharraf has put in place... why?

any other potential hotspots in the world? places that could effect all of us if things went wrong?

AND what about ecological hotspots? perhaps the Amazon Rain forest?

OR how about environmental hotspots? like the ever growing economy of China or India using up resources?

OR countries like America and Australia who refuse to sign the Kyoto Protocol and continue to dispute global warming and the perils of carbon emissions?

please post intelligent justified opinions with references if needed.

clustermap

our clustermap is going off!
we are getting popular in more places - see america exploding with interest? but which countries would you say were notable by their lack of views? and would you have any theories to share regarding those countries that haven't shown any interest - for example, a major world power, with a huge land mass, has no views - it is a former communist regime that used to be oppressive, but now has more freedom. why might it be noticeably missing from our world fan club? or is this too tricky a question for such little folk who can barely read [according to start tests]
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