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I'm proud to be a Youth! It makes the world truth! I'm a young mind! Creating new shine! Imagination is my power, With which I make my real power! Always making everyone happy around me, Making the world a better place for me! Letting everyone know that, It's a time to shine! I'm proud to be a Youth!!
Look to Computers for the Next Dr. Seuss: The World of Language Generators and GPT-3 Technology
When talking about A.I., Google’s Cassie Kozyrkov asks you to imagine an island of drunk workers, an island that does the mindless, repetitive work that humans don’t want to do. We’re used to thinking about computers this way—but when they become better writers than us, things grow complicated. Natural Language Generation (NLG), the subset of A.I. that powers computer-written language, essentially works by predicting a response to given data. If you feed it an incomplete sentence, it calculates the probability that a next set of words will follow. In our daily lives, this is built into...
My environment
I am a youth who is witnessing the impact of climate change and environmental degradation- the loss of trees due to uncontrollable cutting and burning of trees to be used as charcoal. How have we let the ideas of investment and development bring about more destruction than good? Selfishness and greed are affecting a lot of poor people who depend on natural resources. I ask myself, what am I doing wrong as an individual? What is Zambia or every Zambian doing wrong? What can I do to bring positive change? What can we as youth do to protect our environment? I believe there is need to promote...
8 Ways to Save our Seas... and Cash
This summer, let’s spare a thought for our pachyderm friends
For the past several months, elephant owners in Kerala (India) have been protesting to lift the ban preventing Ramachandran, one of the State’s tallest and most popular captive elephants, from taking part in the Thrissur Pooram, an iconic festival in the State. Over the years, Raman, as he is lovingly called, has been a festival favourite, but was barred after he ran amok last February, killing two people and injuring several others. Such a ban, if lifted, goes directly against the order issued by the Chief Wildlife Warden that banned the parading of elephants during festivals. In the past...
Tolly Dolly Posh: fashion + sustainability
Imagine
Climate change: More than just a buzzword
We have to save the fading beauty of the earth
Beyond the valley of ashes - air pollution in Mongolia
Europe, May 26, youth, and the climate crisis have more in common than you think
We have to stop climate change
Since the last year, I have been observing that the frequency of rain is increasing day by day. Even on the most arid days, it rained as if the monsoon had arrived! This unusual rain is only taking place daily due to the increase in the evaporation which in turn depends on the increase of the Sun’s heat. If this continues then the era is not too away when there will be rain every day, every hour and every second. There will be floods daily. Yes, the Climate is Changing. Not slowly, but rapidly! We, humans, are unable to combat it. Private transportation is increasing daily. CFCs from perfumes...
How can you make a difference?
With the rise of a globally aware generation constantly interconnected through social media, people are starting to become more vocal about issues that they are deeply passionate about. Several of these issues revolve around the environment and the rapid deterioration of it. The buildup of plastic waste in Cocos Island, the bleached corals of the Great Barrier Reef, the endangerment of beloved species worldwide such as the Sumatran rhino and the reported cases of beached whales with stomachs full of plastic, has created quite the stir across social media. Individuals often feel inclined to...
Defining my success as a conservationist
All too often I find myself in a conversation about how intimidating I am. How my confidence and my success in my desired field of conservation separates me from the rest of my generation and prevents me from having “typical” conversations with my peers. I say the word typical loosely, because what do “typical” youth conversations look like? And why are conversations about pressing environmental issues seen as atypical when youth around the world have proven time and time again that they are the ones willing to take the larger stance? I get told on a daily that the work I have done is “so...
Mother Nature's plea
Oh ‘Wise’ Man. Oh wise man, that is who you are right? The wise men, the conquerors of land, ocean, air and space. The wise men, the inventors of the wheel, the light bulb, the telephone. Oh the wise men, the reasons behind the world war and the constant conflicts. The wise men, the cause of animal extinction and climate change. The wise men, the dominators of all life on Earth. Hear me, oh wise man, oh almighty wise man. Did you forget about me? Are you heedless of my cries, or just oblivious? Why is the water dirty? Why is the air dirty? Where are all the trees? Where are all the animals...
Will the Earth survive in next 30 years?
Nature has a unique way of healing you. When life gets tough, I try to spend some time with nature. Spending time amidst those lush green bushes which sway, birds chirping around and the fragrance of nature may not help me to discover solutions to life's challenges, but it does rejuvenate my soul. One day while I was at my workplace, I felt a bit distressed. I could no longer hold it in my heart, so I rushed to the terrace with a slight ray of hope that I would be able to soothe myself by spending a little time with nature. But to my surprise, I was only able to view huge enormous buildings...
Creating our future
If, like me, you want to honor that long-standing promise to the next generation that they will inherit a better world than we did, then this essay might give you a little bit of hope. Because change is not only possible - it has started. Admittedly the context of change and modification of our world is not easy peasy neither rosy. Tax-dodging corporations, attacks on refugees, populism, intolerance, extremism, billions of people in poverty or 'just about managing', droughts, wildfires, floods, etc. are all causing so much of trouble to millions of people all around this tiny world. The...
This is my planet
…. degradation, deforestation, pollution - are largely caused by us, humans, and I want to talk to you about it now… It worries me to read, “The biomass of wild mammals has fallen by 82%, natural ecosystems have lost half their area and millions of species are at the risk of extinction”. Today the situation is critical; we have made many mistakes and caused problems like air pollution, water pollution, global warming… Before I mention a few solutions of how we can solve these problems, I want to highlight how we formed them. What happened in 1750 has changed the course of history - a year when...
From rolling blackouts to electric trains: Tanzania economic miracle
2006 to 2013 marked the long and darkest period in the energy history of Tanzania. The longest drought period of 2005-2006 contributed to hydroelectric power plants inefficiencies leading to rolling blackouts. Efforts were made to rescue the problem, accompanied with the resignation of ministers, including the prime minister. By December 2009, rolling blackouts had triggered people to switch to the use of generators, leading to an increase in the cost of petroleum which increased the cost of import bills, goods and services and, eventually, the inflation rate to 12.1 percent. Citizens’...