Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Why Nations Fail *answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Today we celebrate the #UN's anniversary.
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I want to take this day to thank the UN for being an #organization committed to maintaining #international peace and security, fostering friendly relations among #nations, promoting #social progress, higher living standards, and #humanrights, even when they refuse #peace resolutions to save #civilian lives! 🤡
With keyboards and typefaces made for English, how to communicate Indigenous languages when they are so few digital tools? 🔡 Christopher Cheung reports.
@thetyee I’ve got to admit to confusion, if #first#nations want to #decolonize why are they adopting digital technology? Culture is defined, in part, by the tools that culture uses. I would think a wholesale rejection of digital technology would be consistent with #decolonization. #cdnpoli
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
"The problem is...people live and work on these lands. #Communities have to see a benefit in regrowing and maintaining lost #forests...this is, again, developed #Western#nations asking the least developed communities to shoulder the weight of their past [and barely abated] #ecological damage...every #community [has] different needs and...challenges."
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once must include Everyone, Everywhere, All the Time.