Posts by Jiyun Choi
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Barbie’s electric car and Ken’s SUV – Is there a better option to the real world?
As the world experiences yet another scorching hot summer, the hugely successful Barbie movie showcases a stunning pink ride with Barbie taking the wheel and sharing rides (unwillingly) with Ken.
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A seed was planted in my heart to care about nature
The convenience of city life and advanced technology make it easy to forget how human beings rely on nature. And while we greedily grab resources from nature, we are leaving scratches and burns everywhere on this planet, our only home.
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It’s time to put Indigenous Peoples first at the UN biodiversity talks
The world is waking up to a tragic fact, year on year: deforestation is happening on a scale and at a rate that amounts to nature collapsing.
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Farmers fight for the right to use Indigenous seeds
Farmers from around Kenya are standing up to oppose a discriminatory new law passed by the Kenyan government that restricts the exchange or sale of Indigenous seeds – “the local…
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10 facts about biodiversity, nature protection, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights
From unimaginable habitat loss to heartbreaking species extinctions, it shouldn’t be a surprise to any of us that our biodiversity continues to suffer from human greed, exploitation, encroachment, and neglect.
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Time to clean up the global air pollution! We need #CleanAirNow
Our health cannot wait. It is time for governments around the world to take action.
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Why is the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 so important?
The 15th meeting to be held in Kunming, China in Fall 2022 is our best chance to stop biodiversity loss on the global scale before it further deteriorates beyond our control.
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The Japanese government and the Fukushima nuclear disaster – History repeating itself?
The new government of Kishida may yet find out, as the government of Boris Yeltsin did nearly three decades ago, that you may have plans for dumping radioactive waste into the sea, but it does not mean you will be able to.
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Pua Lay Peng, a frontline defender against plastic pollution in Malaysia
We would say that Pua is the Malaysian version of Erin Brockovich, a concerned citizen who fought for a better environment and consequently, built a strong movement.