Resource Guide to Solve Urgent Global Issues PDF Download

Author: Alekz Londos
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ISBN: 9781539506751
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Languages : en
Pages : 152

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My name is Alekz Londos, the author of this book. I was born in 1980. I live near the ocean in Santa Cruz, California. I have 16 years of experience as an international photojournalist. I focus on stories that will either benefit humanity or our environment by documenting historic disasters and utilizing mass media to help raise awareness and compassion towards tragic events. After being a witness to so much destruction, death, mass suffering, and failed humanitarian responses, I was driven to make a difference and I became involved in emergency services. I began taking courses at Cabrillo College in 2008 and years later had accumulated 74 units. I mostly studied emergency medical training, environmental science, horticulture, sustainability, and renewable energy and resources, a variety of courses that I could apply to my career. I completed the Red Cross course in Santa Cruz and become a disaster relief volunteer in 2009. I also completed the Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) course at the Felton Fire Station in 2010. I established my company, "Advanced Disaster Relief," in 2013. I have (independently) provided immediate medical care and relief support to critical areas before the military and multinational organizations arrived. I self-deployed to hazmat cleanups, lightning storms, wildfires, floods, sinkholes, landslides, snowstorms, car accidents, and a commuter train crash. I was in New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Philippines during the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan. I have been through three hurricanes: Gustav in 2008 as well as Isaac and Sandy in 2013. I also went tornado chasing in Oklahoma in 2013. I was in Ghana during the peak of the Ebola Outbreak in 2014. I volunteering in Nepal during the earthquake aftermath of 2015. I lived in the epicenter for a month (by myself) while treating medical patients and helping the community recover. I went to Erbil, Iraq in 2016, where I brought supplies to the Peshmerga military, distribute medical aid to the clinics, and volunteered in Syrian refugee camps. I have experience doing search and rescue, body recovery, risk mitigation, debris removal, rebuilding infrastructure, psychological debriefing, volunteering in hospitals, and other crucial skill sets. I now consider myself a hybrid photojournalist, environmentalist, humanitarian, and activist. Throughout my missions, I have been a witness to the unimaginable widespread destruction of catastrophic man-made and natural disasters. I have even discovered and exposed horrific environmental cover-ups. I am extremely saddened by the egotism, greed, and lack of compassion by both people and corrupt corporations that are contributing to the destructive impact of industrialized nations. In this moment, we are all witnessing the rapid disruption and alteration of our planet's biosphere and we are still carelessly wasting resources and destroying the earth's fragile ecosystems. The exponential rate of man-made climate change is the collective result of our selfish (repetitive) actions, our over-consuming society, and profit-based consumer-style world economy wasting resources and destroying our earth's fragile ecosystems. Inherently, we have the responsibility to take initiative in being accepting and supportive of our transition towards an ecologically sustainable global society. I began writing this comprehensive "Resource Guide to Solve Urgent Global Issues" document in 2008 when immediate global action became apparent. I dedicated years of my life in constructing it as yet another desperate attempt to present compelling solutions. I hope my background and experience inspires my readers to take action. This 22.5k word document details a wide range of subjects that will not only benefit those working in emergency services and government appointed positions; it will also benefit the general public.