Month: April 2021
Racism Against Asians and Blacks
Remembering the Black Lives Matter movement that generated large anti-racism protests across the globe in 2020 .To truly stop the racist attacks that we have seen a spike of during the pandemic, everyone needs to speak out and stop staying silent on these attitudes, as they are often expressed prior to being acted on. Only
transgender Vs cisgender Athletes Competition
The balancing of what constitutes a fair competition, while maintaining inclusivity and respect for the rights of all athletes, is in a delicate balance surrounding this issue. there have been a number of cases of transgender athletes, that were born as men and transitioned to be female, dominating in female sports. To allow anyone who
Poverty in China
Early this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China had eradicated extreme poverty, a threshold that measures extreme poverty as earning less than $620 USD a year, which amounts to $1.69 USD a day and China has reduced their poverty rate from 88% to just 0.7% from 1981 to 2015, bringing 850 million Chinese
Stock Markets Reality
Stock shorting, or short selling, is a legitimate tactic used in the stock exchange to betting that a stock will do down or loose value, making money for investors on failing businesses such as GameStop, which allows hedge funds to make huge profits even from trading the stocks of failing businesses. The GameStop scandal revealed
World Bank Controversy
The world Bank which was known as the International Bank for Reconstruction Development (IBRD) was established to help fund rebuilding infrastructure in Europe after the Second World War . Over the years the World Bank groups official goals have shifted from helping to finance global infrastructure projects to reducing extreme poverty by 2030 and raising
Internet Bots and Politics
The Internet bots can be complex and trying to regulate them runs the risk of oppressing free speech and with their usage the blanket regulations cannot be applied . Bots can quickly carry out tasks that would be too simple and repetitive for a human user and have seen increased use in recent years in
Sea Dwelling Solution to Climate Change
Seasteading which is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea has been posited as a solution to the climate crisis, the concept involves creating a permanent community of sea-based dwellings that could avoid the rising sea levels of climate change and allow these communities to experiment in alternative forms of government. Organisations such as
Abolishing Hunting
In most countries hunting is regulated or controlled in some way to manage and, in part, protect animals from cruelty and harm to a species, for example there are laws to separate poaching from hunting. Hunting is the killing of animals by humans for meat, sport or even population control. Despite its history, or maybe
Airspace Pollutants
The amount of particulates expelled from combusting jet fuel contributes massively to global warming and global dimming, but the aviation industry currently escapes regulation or emissions targets set by the Kyoto Protocol, as only domestic flights currently count toward a country’s targets. It is clear then that air travel has to go in the long
Planet of the Humans Movie
The film was released to mark the 50th Earth Day and covered a surprising topic, the downsides to sustainable energy. The film has been massively controversial and was even removed YouTube in May 2020 due to an alleged copyright infringement. Michael Moore has defended the film and spoken out about the copyright violation as an