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Climate Change and Developing Countries: Exposing the Neocolonialist Tactics of Developed Nations 🌍💰

  Climate change is a global issue that has severe consequences for the planet, and the burden of its impact is not evenly distributed. Developing countries often bear the brunt of its effects, yet they are the least responsible for causing it. Therefore, these countries have increasingly turned to climate change data as a tool to demand aid and support from wealthier nations. In this article, we argue that developed countries must do more to support developing countries in mitigating the impact of climate change and highlight how they push their capitalist and imperialist agenda in the name of climate change. Firstly, developing countries are disproportionately affected by climate change due to their vulnerability to its impacts. They have less capacity to adapt and are often located in areas most vulnerable to climate change, such as coastal regions and arid areas. Climate change threatens the livelihoods of millions of people in these regions, from farmers whose crops are failin...

How COVID-19 is a boon to Earth Health?

We are under lockdown due to COVID-19. People are not going out from almost 60 to 90 days. All these conditions raising questions related to Air Quality or Pollution. Did pollution really go down due to less mobility in different cities across countries? I was trying to find the answer to this question and came across mobility dataset, congestion dataset and air pollution dataset which has been made public by Google, Tomtom and Plumelabs.  In this article, I will present the analysis and link to these datasets. If you want to analyze this information for your city or country you can visit the referred sites in this article. Google mobility data is available at the following link  -  https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/   The data from India looks like below.  Mobility has drastically reduced in the last 6o days and if you believe these mobility numbers, it will definitely foretell the future of the country or world economy. You c...