Comment by hagbard_c
8 months ago
Africa does not need saving, it is a huge continent - look it up on a map and notice that you can fit USA, China, India, Mexico, Peru, France, Spain, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, The UK, Nepal, Bangladesh and Greece [1] in its area and still have 0.1% of its land mass left to build yourself a Singapore - and it can take care of itself and its own just as long as they manage to get rid of the tin pot dictators, warlords and grifting pseudo-revolutionaries who are in power in too many countries. Europe does need saving but it needs saving from itself, not from some 'climate emergency'. European countries need to realise they are the custodians of cultures which gave rise to most of what we're used to nowadays, both good as well as bad. They need to get over the self-inflicted guilt complex with regard to the bad things by realising the same is true for all other cultures currently in existence and nearly all of those which were vanquished by others and need to get back to promoting more of the good aspects of their (or should that be 'our' - I'm of Dutch origin, living in Sweden) cultures. Enough with the fatalism, enough with all the different scares which are being bandied around - climate, disease, migration, war and more - and back to building a future.
Yes, this means that many a person who has based her future on 'saving Africa' will be out of a job. That is a good thing, the paternalistic (or, to be more precise, maternalistic) attitude towards Africa is both unwarranted as well as an example of the type of hubris which got 'us' here in Europe in this situation to begin with. Find another job, stop trying to impose your maladjusted visions of societal bliss on Africa and elsewhere, go do something useful instead.
[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-true-size-of-africa/
Some sort of Religious reform is needed. The catholic church was like this, until Gutenberg and the printing press and local language translations spread reading/writing and more or less eliminated religion. These religions decided to inflict their cursed aspect on African = 'saving' them - it was rank religious imperialism and I wish the Africans had killed them all. They did the same in Canada - these assorted priests were supported by the governments of the day because they worked for free and they imposed a tyrannical rule over the Aboriginals that lingers to this day. The same was done in Africa, some countries did better and a reasonable government ensued. Most were extractive monopolies - native worked and colonialists ran the show and when they revolted the colonialists were expelled. This goes on now in South African and Zimbabwe where the Boer remnants are moving out as well as being killed by random killings. China has imported millions of AK47 and related rifles and equipped the Africans to help the killing. Do not see China as a friend of Africa, they see Africa as loot.