Nine Chinese oil workers have killede by kidnappers

I just read a news that the kidnappers of nine Chinese oil workers have killed five of the men. Two of them have flee the abductors but two are still captive.

I am very surprised that why they wanted to kidnap Chinese workers. As I know, the workers who went to the Africa for working are actually very poor. Chinese people are not as rich as the reports says. The difference between rich and poverty in China is very very high. I guess that International Media’s reports misunderstand the kidnappers.

Besides, I really feel sad about the death of the workers. How can we stop the chaos in Africa. I think the poverty is the main reason.

The wastes in the produce system

I just watched the video about the wastes in the produce system . The speaker described how the produce system destroyed the environment and wasted the resources. She separated the system into five parts: extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. She mainly emphasized the part of consumption and recognized this part is the main reason which resulted in wasting resources.

I totally agree with the speaker’s opinion and I have the same feeling about the part of consumption. Companies always design many strategies to force us to consume, especially the electronic products and fashion products. For getting the profit as much as they could, they attract and force you to buy it through advertisements and continuing changing the details of the same products.

I think the best way to solve the consumption problems is that governments publicize the facts to people and regulate the companies. However, for their own benefits, governments would impossible be the part of the solution.

"If Women Were More Like Men: Why Females Earn Less"

Today I have read an article "If Women Were More Like Men: Why Females Earn Less". It described the situation of the work of women. And the article analyzed the reasons which caused the situation that women always earn less than men. The article declined that the discrimination in gender was an inevitable reason.
In my opinion, I think the gender discrimination is increasingly narrowed but it still exist. I don't think this problem could be solved at modern times. Regardless, the important position are controlled by men and the fact has lasted for thousands of years. Women gradually lost their interests in these things because of the secondary position in the history. In fact, this caused women have much less interesting in career, power and fame than men are.
Another point worth mentioning is that the article compared MTF( the male transited to female) to FTM (the female transited to male). Through their different situation that MTF want to preserve their identity and FTM want to get rid of their identity quickly. So the speaker concluded that the discrimination still exist in career.