My Life on this planet.

Interesting article to read about the direct African-American slave trade that was approved just over 500 years ago by emperor Charles V and lasted for about 350 years although we still experience the consequences. Consequences today: wars in Africa as leaders and their people were captured and leaderless societies became unstable while descendants of these black slaves are all over the continent America with the positive result of many different types of music such as rap, blues, R&B, samba and many more. Some white people remain racist who think white people are superior whereby they harm white people's reputation while many black people are angry for what happened to their ancestors but also because many still experience hostility and thus are not at the same level as white people in the country were both are born. Indeed, they are called African-Americans while white people are simply Americans as they are born in America and don't need to be reminded that their ...

In the  Intelligencer , a NY magazine, an article describes how climate change may be much worse than until now anticipated although I remember scientists discussing many of these topics before. But yes, troubles may happen much earlier than anticipated, even during the lifespan of those responsible. A few months ago on the Flemish radio, a book about the consequences of climate change and what will happen if we don't act was discussed. Part of the discussion was that the book is too extreme and thus people will not act when they think climate change can't be stopped. But the counter-argument was that talk about it in moderate wording and people will think we don't need to act while actions are needed to prevent the worse case scenario becomes reality. Whatever, too little is done at present to prevent the predicted climate change. The book discusses what can happen if the temperature increases at a maximum of 8°C. One person thinks the authors exaggerate. Indeed, it...

When a hurricane was approaching the Bahamas and now the US east coast, people were saying to pray that the hurricane will not be too devastated. If God exists, why should He help when humans continue to destroy the planet and refuse to spend sufficient money to reverse this? We will learn that repairing damage costs more in money but likely also lives and this is likely to change our behaviour. Reward and humans do not change and want more, punish or the threat of its existence and most people will change. President Trump said to pray for the Bahamas. Indeed, we can pray for island countries that have little contributed to climate change but does it changes much  as the damage is big? And now the storm is on its way to the East coast of the USA . Still, some people still don't recognise the urgency. However, for those who believe in a deity and certainly the powerful who talk about a God who may punish but refuse to accept responsibility for what is happening in the wo...