One billion people missing on maps. But that can only increase, notably in the countries with the fastest growing population and that will become the most populated countries in the world: India and Nigeria notably (for now it is still China first but the Chinese population will decrease, while the population of Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and surrounding countries in central Africa will grow massively with huge megapoles appearing in that region and existing ones growing in density (but still not enough services and many humanitary problems for managing the resources (notably fresh water, used water and sanitization, recycling, lack of electricity, and serious social problems that could become deadly civil wars or turn to dictatorship or complete collapse of the state like in Somalia, Yemen, or more recently in Lebanon. And then huge uncontrollable flows of refugees, and irreversible destruction of the environment, then deadly hunger and massive epidemies which could turn to new pandemies affecting the whole world very fast.
Add to this the two major problems of the humanity: change of climate which is now almost out of control, and the dramatic cost of pandemies: we're not far from a collapse of the whole economy and returning the world to the middle age, even in "democratic countries" (that are now affected with lot of "emergency" measured, supposed to be temporary but that turn them to non-democrties and massive surveillance and complete control of lives by a few "Big Data" players (which are now more powerful than goernements, and already install their dictature...) People need to understand the countries where they live so they can can the correct decision for their current life and their future. It's easy to see that governments are completely inefficient and frozen win their rules that, for most of them, were never really approved but taken without any vision of the future. Democracy has to be rebuilt from the ground, starting by people in the place where they live, and capable of taking decisions that governments won't have the choice than accepting them (including experimentation and auditing in order to adapt to a fast-changing and worsing situation). We don't care about countries borders and even about national laws when they are already abused by a few "big players" or ineffective. The 20th century was the most deadly, but the 21st one will be worse: we won't ven be able to take a count of the victims as they'll be dispersed everywhere and there are tons of political and economical reasons why we won't see them (notably lot of lies from all "leaders" just trying to preserve their seat and their unfair advantages, including their right to modify all laws so they become non-liable for anything: these lead pakyers have no borders at all, so people must react by not having borders as well in their action and choosing themselves the borders of their action and the right to see what happens outside: many isolated efforts spread could unite virtually with common goals and creat their own regulating laws and with more a pragmatic way to make informed decisions). Le mer. 9 sept. 2020 à 00:58, Tyler Radford <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi HOT > > Climate:Red is happening Wednesday and Thursday this week. > https://future-rcrc.com/climate-red-virtual-summit/ > > Everything is online and free. Some sessions to check out: > > What: Can we call it a world map, if it’s missing one billion people? > Where: https://climate.red/session/036 Pre registration required. > When: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM CEST > > What Forecast-based Cash Actions: Bangladesh Experience: > Where: https://climate.red/session/301 - Pre registration required > When: 06:30 PM - 07:00 PM CEST > What: Community mapping to enhance Disaster Preparedness and Response > Where https://climate.red/session/209 Pre registration required. > When: 22:30 PM - 00:00 CEST > > *Tyler Radford* > Executive Director > [email protected] > @TylerSRadford > > *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* > *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* > web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook > <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <https://hotosm.org/donate> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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