How Green are you?

I have to confess something: I´m not very green at all. And it´s not just me, almost the whole Chilean people don´t have green habits. A few people ride bikes, and even worse, people don´t  recycle. That´s because we don´t have a friendly environment culture, and people don´t know what to do, I think.
I incorporated some green habits in my life, for example, I don´t use plastic bags when I go to the supermarket, or I use my bike sometimes (not all the time, because that´s would be really exhausting). My mother and I planted an organic garden, and we harvest our own vegetables. I think that it´s a good idea, because our vegetables are clean of toxic chemicals and stuff. My family have a car, and they use it a lot. I don´t have one, and I´m not hurry for getting one.
I´v never joined any green organisation, I don´t know why. Possibly because I don´t like fanaticism and that kind of stuff. And also I think that the climate change, and all the environment problems, are not already peoples fault. Those who are blame for climate change are who are owners of industries, or who have a lot of politic power and they do nothing.
I would like to started being vegetarian again. When I was a vegetarian I get sick all the time, that´s why I leave it. But I think that this is a good way to help the environment.  Another good idea is having a small bee hive in our houses. Sounds weird, but in the whole world bees are dying, and have a small bee hive is not dangerous, you only have to take care about you and the bees, and you also get honey for you home ;)

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is one of my favorite program on TV. The program it´s about a Time Lord (a time traveler alien) knows as The Doctor. He explores the universe in his TARDIS (a time spaceship) with his companions and friends. In the exterior the spaceship looks like a blue British police box, common on 1960.  

Along the seasons of the program, the Doctor changes his faces, with a total of 11 actors that embodies the character. The Doctor works to save the civilization and the whole life in the universe. 

Doctor Who appeared for the first time on 1963 on BBC television. That was one of the first science fiction programs on TV, and they have a horrible special effects. When something explode, or something fly, you can see the twines, and the robots has made with carton. 

In 2005 appears on TV a remake of the program, and the continue of the original history. They are two very popular Doctor characters: Matt Smith and David Tennant. 

In Chile, this program is not in TV, even in cable television. You have to see that on internet, they are a lot of websites that upload the episodes with subtitles in spanish. I hired Netflix and there I can see all the programs that I like, one of them is this one. 

Are the poor getting poorer?

If UK ir coming out of reccesion or going into recovery is not the point, the importat thing is that the benefists should be spread around. Thats why the situation of poor people is comming up in to the Bristish policy.
They are basically two groups with diffrerent conclussions about the situation of "the poor". They are those that claim that poor are getting poorer either because income is gettin concentrated in the hands of the rich or because standards of living are getting worse. On the other side are those who said that the poor are getting richer. Who has the right conclusion?

Chart 1: Real incomes

Some British people have seen their incomes rise, but some of the poores people have seen them fall in the last times. This chart is usefull to understand this: the group with the lowest income is in the firse percentile, the group with the second lowest income is in the second percentile, and then we come to the last (99^th) with the group that earns the most. This chart shows how incomes has been changed betweet 1980-2012. You can see that the incomes og the poorest 1% UK population has been falled, and the incomes of the richest 1% hast been risen by about 3%.
 
  Graph: The Institute for Fiscal Studies

Chart 2: Standards of living

UK is a developed country, so "hunger" is not an indicator of how people live. For this reason, the UK government monitors something that they called "severe material deprivation", wich is when people can´t afford at least four of the basics. The chart shows that more people are unable to afford the basics.  

 

Chart 3: Policy change

What was the impact of the coalition? This chart (wich uses the same percentiles that the previous one) shows that the poores 10% of the UK populations stand to lose 4,3% of their incomes as a direct consequence of the direct tax and benefit reforms that has been introduced yet, and planned between April 2012 and April 2015. The richet 20% of the UK will se their incomes rise by 1%.

 

New taken from: 
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2013/oct/02/poor-richer-poverty-living-standards