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Every day all the rainforest around the globe are being destroyed by human hands due to the find of Palm oil, used in food, shampoos and other objects we use daily. With every morsel of terrain, we destroy the habitat of many species of animals like the Rang-tan mentioned in the video.

The Brazilian rainforest is the most affected by this, loosing between 2000 and 2012, 360277 square kilometres of forest, but in places like Indonesia, Malaysia and DR Congo had high quantities of acres lost. Following some studios, the fact of cut down this forest imply to erase the 31% of land area on Earth just to get palm oil, without realizing that we are poisoning the Earth and poisoning us with this.

The factories which work with this product produce 1.8 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases every year, helping Global Warming and Climatic Change to set our world on fire, almost literally.

To summarize, every year we lost animals, forests and nature, and only because of our own greed. If we wish to not destroy the planet, we must change to change this.

Sources:

- Rhett Butler. (2014). Why are rainforest destroyed? 2018, By kids.mongabay.com Website: https://kids.mongabay.com/elementary/501.html

- Rhett Butler. (2015). DEFORESTATION: A World Imperiled: Forces Behind Forest Loss. 2018, By rainforests.mongabay.com Website: https://rainforests.mongabay.com/0801.htm

- Kerry Cesareo & Linda K. Walker. (2018). DEFORESTATION. 2018, de WWE Website: https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/deforestation

- Greenpeace. (2007). How the palm oil industry is Cooking the Climate - full report. 2018, de Greenpeace Website: https://www.greenpeace.org/archive-international/en/publications/reports/cooking-the-climate-full/

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Obesity and overweight are common in our days, should people who suffer it pay more than those who not?

For it, we have the statement of phobia generated by obese people (a phenomenon explained by Richard Conniff to Men'sHealth in October 2010 under the name of "I hate fat people"), the main prejudices against fat people help to have a misconception of these health problems. In this hand, we also have that we eat less than in 1976 but more saturated fats as George Monbiot said for The Guardian this August. These arguments oust the common believing that eat more increase obesity. Against, we have the study made by the Medical Journal of Australia, who has calculated the medical cost of overweight and obesity. The results reveal that most of the participants were over their "ideal" weight, with only a 24.7% of normal-BMI (Body Mass Index) people, and also reveals an annual cost of $2100 in 2005 per person. Those costs involve a great rise in government subsidies. The highest care costs are for obese and overweighted people with a reduction of 30% lower for those people who lost weight than for those who remained sick in this country( 2005).

In my opinion, the cost implicit on being obese or overweighted and the health problems supply the extra money, for me, they should pay as normal-weighted people does and everybody has to be aware at this subject which affects nowadays all of our countries.

Sources:

-Colagiuri, Stephen, Crystal M. Y. Lee, Ruth Colagiuri, Dianna Magliano, Jonathan E. Shaw, Paul Z. Zimmet, and Ian D. Caterson. ‘The Cost of Overweight and Obesity in Australia’. The Medical Journal of Australia 192, no. 5 (1 March 2010): 260–64. https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2010/192/5/cost-overweight-and-obesity-australia

- Conniff, Richard. ‘I Hate Fat People’. Men’s Health, 19 October 2010. https://www.menshealth.com/weight-loss/a19524985/i-hate-fat-people/.

-Monbiot, George. ‘We’re in a New Age of Obesity. How Did It Happen? You’d Be Surprised | George Monbiot’. The Guardian, 15 August 2018, sec. Opinion. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/15/age-of-obesity-shaming-overweight-people.