Indica writes Medium essays with maps and data on topics like Covid responses, passport rankings, climate and healthcare.
HN links it for data-driven takes on Covid outcomes, passport value and climate impacts, with commenters using it to counter or complement claims.
No, they’re not. Not necessarily.
https://medium.com/@indica/climate-winners-and-losers-in-two-maps-c89f17ef0a80?fbclid=IwAR1gff7oAyfhnAsgYPTBgojZJoH7mz0WHsEtxVul2zbwqFyt9ix7C3ZSN0c
Essentially countries that are causing climate are the industrialised world (obv.). Countries that are vital to stopping climate change because they have huge green areas, ie Brasil, are actually being heavily impacted by climate change and now they are being climateblamed by the first world for chopping down their forests for productive activities. Well if the first world wants the forest to stay they ought to pay for it.
They also ought to drastically reduce their carbon emissions.
It’s funny how the same citizen of the same countries who are not doing their share of reducing emissions (US) are claiming in the same breath that Brasil should be punished for destroying a forest the West is desperate to protect. Well then protect it - tax your corporations for carbon emissions and buy up the amazon to protect it. Simple.
Shared this mostly to express surprise and uncertainty about it, and to gather others' views.
Compare with criticism: https://medium.com/@indica/in-the-nytimes-only-white-leaders-stand-out-3e2c175245f8
then again.. if you have a US passport, today much the world is not opening its doors to it: https://medium.com/@indica/the-plague-states-of-america-53b20678a80e
On a similar note, about Mongolia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23278312 / https://medium.com/@indica/covid-underdogs-mongolia-3b0c162427c2