Avainsana: Africa
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A few words about the present and development aid – ignoring global responsibility has caused an unprecedented crisis
This year, Finland is giving development aid of only about 0.36% of its GNI, or gross national income. The minimum proposed by the UN should be at least 0.7%. The fact that we are allowed to keep 99.64% and give only 0.36% to the world’s most vulnerable is pure greed and selfishness. On average, a…
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Knowledge is power – knowledge creates a better future or it can lead to dystopia
Wikipedia is a great project. It provides free information to all of humanity. This is invaluable, especially in developing countries. I have written over 500 Wikipedia articles myself and also done charity work in Africa, where I always “promote” Wikipedia to local teachers, schoolchildren, students, farmers, etc. There, Wikipedia offers a free and easy way…
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”Unity in diversity” – the ghost of colonialism and the harmony of nations
There are thousands of indigenous peoples in the world. There are more than 6000 different languages alone. A large part of them disappear every decade. For example, Grizelda Kristina, the last native speaker of Livin, died in 2013 at the age of over 100. Some languages have only a few speakers left. Only 2 people…
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Climate change now vol 2 – escalation of climate crisis and the era of catastrophes
Very disturbing news: North Atlantic thermal anomalies (large deviations in the average temperature) and anomalies in the global average temperature point to something very dark: climate change is escalating and has leapfrogged to a whole new level. We have apparently already reached 2 degrees of warming, that is, the average temperature of the earth has…
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