Many developments have been overshadowed by the war of aggression started by Russia and the recession. We present five interesting people to watch this year.
Bella Lack, the voice of young environmental activists from Britain
In 2023 it will be (you will switch to another service) once again heat records were broken in different parts of the world. So it just keeps getting warmer, even though the year 2022 was, for example, the hottest in British measurement history. That’s what you think British Meteorological Institute (switch to another service) based on preliminary data at the end of December.
Swedish Greta Thunberg alongside him, his British peer has risen to the world limelight elsewhere. Bella Lack19, like Thunberg, fights against global warming.
The British newspaper The Guardian (you will switch to another service)describes Lack as one of the leading environmental activists of his generation. Lack speaks especially for hope and shared responsibility.
– What do we have as an alternative? Giving up? Lack reflected in an interview with The Guardian in August.
Lack woke up to climate change at the age of 12. At school, he spoke against the destruction of forests. Then he switched to active campaigning. At the age of 15, he already participated in demonstrations.
Lack wants to redefine activism.
– There is a stigma associated with activism. Why [entinen pääministeri] Boris Johnson invited activists? Tree-hugging, mung bean-munching ecofreaks? Lack stated according to The Guardian.
Lack currently works as an ambassador for several nature conservation organizations. He wrote the book in 2020. The Children of the Anthropocene deals with climate change through young people’s stories.
Lack’s book has not been translated into Finnish, but the title is freely translated as “Children of the Anthropocene”.
Le Thi Thu Thuy, Tesla challenger from Vietnam
Electric cars are expected to act as a brake on climate change. The EU has banned the sale of new combustion engine cars from 2035. The United States aims in turn (you switch to another service)that half of the country’s car fleet would be electric cars by 2030.
Stateside Elon Musk’s the pilot Tesla maintains a “leading position” in the electric car market (you switch to another service). However, the company’s market share is believed to decrease in 2023. The reason is the cheaper electric cars brought to the market by competitors.
One of Tesla’s challengers is the Vietnamese company Vinfast. The electric cars it produces are cheaper than Teslas.
The company is managed by a Vietnamese Le Thi Thu Thuy.
Le Thi Thu Thuy, 48, previously worked as a banker at Lehman Brothers. Now he is piloting Vinfast into the US market at high speed.
The company is currently building a factory in the United States.
Will libertarian Javier Milei become president of Argentina?
Leftist leaders have come to power in several Latin American countries in recent years. Most recently, last fall, Brazilians elected a left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Now the trend is believed changing (you switch to another service).
Argentina, the continent’s second largest country, has presidential elections in October. One candidate is a libertarian economist Javier Milei52. He has been described as perhaps the most radical member of his own libertarian parliamentary group.
Milei defines himself as an anarcho-capitalist. At the time of the parliamentary elections in 2021, he promised, among other things, to donate his generous $3,000 monthly salary if elected. “It’s about dirty money,” he said about his salary.
– Philosophically speaking, the state is a criminal organization. It is financed by taxes collected from the people by force. We will return the money stolen by the political establishment, Milei stated According to the Washington Post (you will be transferred to another service).
Libertarians emphasize individual freedom in all matters.
– I would rather cut off my own hand than raise taxes, Milei said to The According to the Washington Post (you will be transferred to another service).
Miles has been compared to the former president of Brazil To Jair Bolsonaro and to the former President of the United States to Donald Trump.
– Our common line is the fight against communism and socialism, Milei stated the foreign service of the German Broadcasting Corporation According to Deutsche Welle (you switch to another service).
The former rock band soloist and regular face on TV panels has attracted supporters from different sides of the political spectrum. In particular, he is estimated to attract young voters. Milei has been rocking at the top of the support statistics (you switch to another service).
Alexandr Wang, the young billionaire who developed artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is estimated to develop and become common by leaps and bounds. The financial publication Forbes evaluates (you switch to another service)that internet searches may change more during the year 2023 than they have changed during the last twenty years combined, i.e. since the search engine Google became known to the general public in the early 2000s.
The development is shown by the artificial intelligence application Chat GPT, which also answers questions in Finnish. The dark sides of artificial intelligence are also likely to come up in a wider discussion.
Leading artificial intelligence companies also include Scale AI. Its second founder is from the United States Alexander Wang.
Wang, 25, made headlines around the world last spring when he became the youngest self-made billionaire.
Scale AI’s customers include a number of well-known parties such as General Motors, Toyota and the US Army. Forbes (you are moving to another service) describes the company’s services as “unleashing the potential of the data collected by the company”.
The company has also donated its technology to analyze the damage caused by Russia’s major attack in Ukraine.
Lois Auta takes a look at the Nigerian Parliament
Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, is starting a busy election year on the continent. Nigerians will vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections in February. In total, elections will be held in 17 African countries in 2023.
– Nigeria’s elections are among the most important in Africa, says the director of the Africa Program of the British Institute for International Policy Research Alex Vines In an interview with Deutsche Welle (you switch to another service).
Lois Help, 42, is one of the candidates. She represents two underrepresented groups in Nigerian politics: women and the disabled.
– People see disability and gender before the candidate’s reliability and capacity, Auta regretted In an interview with AlJazeera (you will switch to another service) in June.
Auta contracted polio at the age of two. The disease left him with a lifelong disability. This is why he uses a wheelchair. He has championed the cause of disabled Nigerians for years. He was also a candidate in the previous election, but was not elected.
In the 2019 elections, only a scant number of women were elected to Nigeria’s bicameral parliament. Eight women made it to the Senate. There are a total of 109 seats. In the House of Representatives, the proportion of women is even lower: 13 women out of 360 representatives. The information appears in the Inter-Parliamentary Union About IPU statistics (you will switch to another service).
Auta’s work has been noticed Outside the borders of Nigeria (you will switch to another service). The World Economic Forum (WEF) named him to the group of young global leaders in 2017.
Source: Reuters