＜ 23. Nov. 2019 Saturday Meeting Review ＞

[Scarlet]

＜ 23. Nov. 2019 Saturday Meeting Review ＞

Hello ! Englisholic members ! It is me Scarlett :) 

How are you today all ? I had a lazy Sunday today. And with a sleepy eyes, I am writing this after note.

Even though today is warmer than last week, cold winter is obviously just around corner. You know what? Due to the aggravating climate change, we would experience more short autumn season in the future in Korea. I think it is the worst scenario ever. Anyhow stay warm if you want not to catch a cold. Doing regular exercise is the best way to enhance our immune system as we discussed yesterday :).

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Attendees were Scarlett(me), Daniel, Paris, Bader, Joey, Brenda, Sunny, Susie and Ju.
All three gentlemen attendees wear stripped dress shirts and all agreed that they look so dandy and smart :).  And some of beautiful ladies join us today !~ OK, I will make a quick summary for the new faces and members who is coming back from long absence.
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*** Currently joined member Bader is a young but married gentlemen who is from Morocco and shows his deep perspectives on the environmental issues. And I was impressed by his understanding on the international issues and I think he is a good debater. He has a lot of interests on education and I think he know the power of education well. Paris shows her favoritism on his voice and she compliments a lot. I agree with her but I want to compliment his knowledge more. 

*** Ju is coming back again. Welcome back ! Since, Hien left for his country America, we could not see you for a while. But you know, we are here for you always. Come and visit Englisholic anytime. :) As an elementary school teacher, she gave us good examples of elementary schooler's response on the climate change education. 

*** Susie is coming back as well. Where is David? She was in working holiday in Australia. It has been just 4 month since she is got back from her backpacking trip in Australia. Wow !~ Welcome back. I am awaiting for your stories from trip. See you again.
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Yesterday, we had a intriguing discussion till we had a blue in the face. Even though, there were not many changes on the prepared topic materials, we could enjoy the discussion due to some members who have interests on these issues. Topics are as follows. [23. Nov. 2019] Saturday meeting topic (http://cafe.daum.net/englisholic/RxJ/990)

- How to approach to the Foods and habitat security concerns due to Multiplying effects of climate change on disasters? - How to resolve the tensions between world citizen while applying the 'Glocalization' concept to regional areas?

- How to manage your brain work more functionally well and efficient?

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Firstly, Venice flooding was one of the top ranked internet news, last week. So I had picked this subject as a main issue. As you know, security concerns in terms of Water, Food and Habitat due to climate change are main subjects in our society. Due to the accelerating climate change impacts, the extreme weather conditions and aggravating monsoon weather conditions cause tons of security issues in our society.
Even though I have never been to Venice, I always had a strong feeling that I have to visit that charming city one day. However, when I have heard about the stories of potential inaccessibility of Venice in the near future, I was fully disappointed with that facts. I could not believe that old buildings and artifacts would be sinking under the seawater one day. It sounds sad. Furthermore, I think It is not just other countries' story, Busan and other cities nearby ocean area in Korea could experience similar disasters in the near future. Even though we have already set up with new plans for climate change, Uncertainties due to Integrated impact of sea-level rise. intense extreme weather conditions and urban sprawl could not be predicted well and will bring more serious concerns in our society one day. And that is why we need more thorough and continuous monitoring systems and the periodical assessment and plans. How much did we prepare for that historical natural disasters? I am wondering about that.

And we talk about the solutions to resolve climate change problems. Bader commented about the education. Only through the education we can change the perceptions of our political leaders and average citizens, which bring about behavioral changes. I agree with his point. We need more environmentally awarded education system. As Ju said, when she shows the polar bear video to students, their response on the skinny polar bear gave us sad feelings. But as we discussed earlier, education at school is temporary so we need continuous educating system in the society and at home as well. And also how to deal with the present leaders or citizens who do not have enough environmental awareness? They want to keep up with their bad behaviors in order to pursue their own personal interests. How can we stop them? In terms of solutions we have a long way to go.

And we also talk about the air pollution research project result between Korea, China and Japan. As you know it is very sensitive issue in Korea because as time goes by we more care about our health and air-borne disease cause lots of problems in our society but China is focused on the economic growth without considering environment that much. As a neighborhood country, we need to push them to be in the sustainable development track but we also need to think about the Korean environment and energy policies as well. In other words, we need to think about how to attain energy security using the alternative energy source without pollution in our domestics level.

Fight for the justice and reflect and Proceed for "Sustainable Growth"

------------------------------------ Secondly, I want to deliver the dilemmas of Glocalization worldwide using the Korean movie Moss. The movie 'Moss', which is 2010 South Korean mystery thriller film directed by Kang Woo-suk, was based on the popular webtoon of the same title by Yoon Tae-ho. Basically this movie talks about one guy's odd experience in his father's hometown. As this movie represented, sometimes locals have their own unique cultures or secrets which are against to global value system such as Justice, peace, women empowerment and equal opportunity. Speaking of those international value system, UN addresses 'Glocalization'. However, it brings about very sensitive issue sometimes. because value of globalization conflicts with regional value system frequently in real lives. If that is the case, do you think UN supports unprivileged group or privileged group? Well... It is very ambiguous sometimes. In this perspective, for the locals who are not privileged group in the region, realization of globalized values in our daily routine is very hard to acquire and even injustice is happening as usual. Now, I want to ask you that your local area has fair glocalizaion system? and International organization do support unprivileged group without trading some interests with locally privileged class?

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Thirdly, we talk about the superbrain secrets to make your brain efficient and work faster. In our daily routine, we focused on the physical management but we forget about how to make our brain work better. Some basic treatment has been shared by Jim Kwik. For instance, you would better have brain food, think positive, exercise regularly, take your supplements, have positive peer group, keep clean environment, sleep enough, have brain protection always, practice lifelong leaning and have stress management. I think it seems very normal practices but we overlooked this basic routine in our daily life frequently, Food, exercise and life learning attitude is a key to make your brain resource more functional. Keep in mind that facts.

So We have dealing with 3 categories for our topics which

comprise Water, Food and Habitat security, Glocalization and self management.

I hope you enjoy the discussion with trendy issues.

Thank you for joining Saturday meeting this week.

See you next week :)

With Love,
Scarlett :) 

[Taylor]

Hello!Natural disaster such Venice flooding and climate changes may have been useful. especially for me:)
what a shame to have been on duty

[Scarlet]

Yeah I thought this issue is connected to your job a lot. I am sorry that you had a duty on that day but I think you will have a chance to talk about it later. Have a nice weekend. :)

[Brenda Choi]

Good to get you here.😁