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Last Sunday, a pedestrian bridge collapsed in Morbi (India), which lead to death of 135 people. Pedestrians standing in the middle of the bridge, fell into the water and drowned, while people who were closer to ends died from hitting the rocks. There is a suspicion of a massive corruption being involved, because the Gujarat government entrusted the repair of a 100-year-old bridge to the local company called Oreva and this company is known from making watches, clocks and lighting. It is unknown if they have any experience in repairing infrastructure. Personally, I think that this tragedy shows how big of a tragedy can happen because of someone’s oversight. 135 innocent people died, leaving their families in grief and pain. Incidents like that happen relatively often and that’s why I think it is so important to prevent them. It can be done by committing the repair of bridges and all the other public utilities only to trusted companies and contractors.   source: https://www.theg...

The term “medievous” has always been associated with something uncultured, barbaric or even  backward. For example, recently, Jean Asselborn (Luxembourg’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs) said  “People have the right to live as they wish, we are no longer in the Middle Ages.” Even just the name of an era “The Middle Ages” could be graphically represented as a valley separating two mountains: the Ancient and the Modern Ages. The name of next epoch –renaissance  means reborn, which suggests that something cannot be reborn if it wasn’t already dead. Did really nothing important happen during Middle Ages, and those 1000 years have been wasted? Personally, I don’t really think we could say so. For example there were many important inventions during that time, such as Spinning Wheel, Compass, Gunpowder or Printing Press. The Middle Ages, just like all the other epochs, including our present one, had times of shadow, but also light as well, and I think that we could l...

 Last Friday, two activists of “Just Stop Oil” (the group that focuses on climate crisis concerning fossil fuels) have thrown tomato soup over one of the most famous paintings in the world – “Sunflowers” by Van Gogh, at the National Gallery in London. After that, the girls glued themselves into the wall. Thankfully, the painting was protected by glass, so it was just the frame which has some minor damage, but overall the painting stayed unharmed. In my opinion, cost of oil crisis is an really important problem we need to deal with, however I don’t think that damaging art is a good idea. Those activists for sure drew attention to the topic, but I don’t quite understand why they would want to destroy art pieces completely unrelated to the problem. Overall, I think their intentions are rather good, but their actions are inappropriate and they should find other ways to work against this issue. source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/just-stop-oil-activists-throw...

Statistic show, that during this summer’s heatwaves, over 2,800 more people aged 65 and over died in England. The UK Health Security Agency noted 43,755 non-Covid-related deaths of people in the 65-plus age group during this summer’s heatwaves in England which is  2,809 more than expected. That’s the highest number since  he heatwave plan for England in 2004 was introduced. In my opinion, those statistic prove that the global warming is becoming more and more dangerous for us and something needs to be done. What is going to be the breaking point for us, when we will actually start caring   and is it not going to be too late? The climate crisis has an increasing impact on public health. According to statistics shown in the article, the 2022s heatwaves caused the highest excess death toll in at least two decades. If we don’t do anything with it, what will happen next?   source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/07/england-excess-deaths-during-2022-heatwave...

  Across the Australia, the juvenile justice system is in crisis, according to families of their detained children, lawyers and human rights advocates. There is an increasingly growing number of young people committing suicide, feeling as death is the only escape from this facility. In a report released in April, it says that there had been 24 attempted suicides at Banksia Hill between January and November of 2021. State and territory governments have committed to reducing juvenile detention rates by 30% by 2031, but is it really going to happen?  I think that is extremely important to take action. Conditions in those facilities are causing drastic declines in young detainees’ mental health, even the inspector of WA’s adult prisons and juvenile detention centre – Neil Morgan says that “If you weren’t ill before you went there, you would be ill within a very short time of being in that facility”. This, in my opinion, is such an important concern and is it an essential to do eve...