Global Wellbeing

Good jobs and household riches remain out of reach Nov 24th 2022 In 1985 two articles about the Bangladeshi population of east London appeared—one in an academic journal, the other in an education report. Both were despondent. Bangladeshi children were “seriously underachieving” at school, said the education study. The academic paper described knots of unemployed men hanging around the streets, and forecast even worse for Bangladeshis as London deindustrialised. Barring a major intervention, the authors wrote, “they will become more marginalised than at present.” Happily, something has happened to a group that accounts for about one percent of the population of England and Wales. Over the past two decades Bangladeshis in England have gone from performing worse than white Britons in the gcse exams taken at age 16 to performing considerably better (see chart). No other ethnic group has improved as much. Bangladeshis now compete for top university places and good jobs. Their progress su...

Its wind farms are key to the country’s net-zero hopes Nov 24th 2022 One turn of an “sg 8.0-167 dd” turbine generates enough electricity to run a British home for a day and a night. sg stands for Siemens Gamesa, a subsidiary of the German industrial giant, which makes the machines in Hull. The 8.0 is the turbine’s maximum output in megawatts (mw). The 167 is the diameter of its rotor in metres: it sweeps out in a circle equivalent in area to about three football pitches. And the dd stands for direct drive, an electricity-generation technology with no fiddly gears to wear out. At Hornsea 2, a wind farm located off the Yorkshire coast, 165 of these vast turbines form a field of steel stretching farther than the eye can see. Hornsea 2, which became fully functional in August, is now the largest wind farm in the world. When the wind really blows it can power 1.4m homes. The development of its offshore wind industry is one of Britain’s biggest infrastructural successes. The first farms, ins...

Who is the owner of the magical white palace in the remote village of Bogura? Most villages are home to cans of villages, where the mysterious white porcelain palace is located in the remote village of Bogura. The building is called Sarkar Mahol.  In front of the lower castle, there is no exaggeration to say that this palatial palace is a palatable palace. At the entrance of a village named সরকার পাড়া in Deuli Union, the building will be welcomed by strangers, the two will be welcomed by strangers. The question comes to everyone's mind, what in the remote village of সরকার পাড়া in Bogura is the Palace of the Two Houses? The fact that resides in this house is only a man. He works as a guardian there. There is no limit to the curiosity of the inhabitants. They say, the house was built for 12 years, it spent about 500 crore wonder! The home owner, Sakhawat Hossain Tutu , learned that he did not have the fortune to live in this house despite spending too much money. Sakhawat H...

Fears of overpopulation and underpopulation are both overblown Nov 11th 2022 Something about global population trends seems to send otherwise sensible people over the edge. According to the United Nations, the planet’s population is due to reach 8bn on November 15th. Alarm bells are clanging. Population pessimists have long predicted mass famine. Now they add prophecies of environmental disaster as a result of too many people. Others worry about the opposite problem: “population collapse due to low birth rates”, tweeted Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed “chief Twit”, “is a much bigger risk to civilisation than global warming.” In fact, looking at population change during the past decade suggests neither of these mutually contradictory divinations of doom will prove correct. It took a dozen years (from 1998 to 2010) for the global population to grow from 6bn to 7bn. It has taken the same length of time to notch up the next billion. Against the backdrop of catastrophising, it is worth recal...

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