World regional geography learning blog

I spent last night doing my mind map about equality of the world and what slows down the development towards it. Even though Gapminder taught me that the world is not as unequal as I thought, we still have a long way to go. When doing my mind map it came to my mind that there are still so many problems on the way of equality. We have a long way to go. Laws can be easily changed and money raised to the poor, hunger and diseases can be cured, but how do we change people's minds and attitudes? Like said in the previous post, personal rights have gone only worse during the last couple of years. How do we stop misogynism? How do we tell the conservative Islamic countries that women deserve the same rights as men or to African people that mutilating women is wrong when they have practised these things for centuries? My mind map about things slowing down progress towards equality.   I know that the world has gone forward too, good examples are the gay rights laws during the last couple of

I watched Michael Green's TED Talk about the SDGs yesterday. The SDGs are already familiar to me because they have been discussed about in teacher studies last year. I must admit though, I can't remember all of the 17 goals. However,  we never thought about how it is currently going or is it even possible to achieve the goals or how do we measure the progress. That's why the video was interesting and I learned a lot.   I'm sad but not surprised to hear that the 2030 goals will be achieved in 2094 with the current phase. Especially now with the ongoing Corona situation, I think we are even further away from the goal. However, I was glad to see that many countries are making progress in many things. I learned that SDG 6: Water and sanitation is sadly not one of them. I personally think this is one of the most important goals because it affects both humans and nature. If we know that some countries are left far behind from the goal, the rich countries should act now and d

  I went to the Gapminder website and did the Gapminder test. The test was about how well you know or think you have an idea of how the people of the world are doing on average considering things like schooling, healthcare and access to electricity and also about how the world has or is changing considering population growth and endangered species. All of the questions were about topics studied in human geography and topics that have been discussed already in high school. My score was 4/13. I couldn’t believe it and am totally surprised. How did I do so badly? As a future geography teacher I thought I had a clue about these topics. I was thinking too negatively about most of the things. Turns out, the world population in total is doing far better than I thought.    After doing the test I watched the Ignorance Project TED Talk. I did worse than chimpanzees! Turned out, I was not the only one. Majority of the people in Western countries have no idea how the world is doing today, no