There are a lot of factors, but the biggest reason why Africa is still a shit hole remains the first world.

They had some pretty big cities and advancing technology before Europe basically divided up and raped the continent.

Then the slave trade resulted in us trading them massive amounts of guns and money, which stopped over night, leaving them with only guns.....

Anywhere, there are a lot of reasons why the third world is the way it is, but universally they had large cities and prosperity relative to the rest of the world at one point until international conflict with a European or otherwise Western power of some sort or another drained or destroyed it.

Just keep in mind a massive amount of our wealth was generated from slaves, from conflict minerals allowing the computer revolution, from the spice trade, etc. etc.

It’s been going on for literally hundreds of years.

The whole point is that technology makes use of finite resources in a more efficient way. Technological progress has actually allowed the fossil fuel industry to sustain itself for far longer than anticipated only 20 years ago, due to advancements in locating untapped oil reserves and being able to convert lower quality oil into a workable product. Moreover, there are plenty of alternative energy sources (nuclear in particular) that are chronically underused because of the higher initial investment required for nuclear reactors and fossil fuels being the status quo. It's not a question of the alternatives being out there, what's more important is the willingness to invest and use them. The good thing is our hands will finally be forced when fossil fuels run out.



All the more reason to help them out!

The U.S. is bigger than the White House, German foreign minister says

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-usa/the-u-s-is-bigger-than-the-white-house-german-foreign-minister-says-idUSKBN1KF0MS





Is Germany actually trying to "influence" the American people?

You are not nuanced enough to ever work out even the basics of foreign diplomacy so it would be pointless to try explain it to you.
This man is saying that even though trump is a buffoon germany still wants to have a strong relationship with america, nothing more, nothing less.

If you say so. LOL

this, but he does so in a tone that quite clearly translates to "fuck trump". but its no wonder, Heiko Maas is a pathetic little fellow, a disgrace who openly sympathizes with and supports antifa and internet censorship. on every policy field except for economic policy, heiko maas would stand somewhere to the left of She Guevara.

our politicians with their moral imperialism try to tell pretty much everyone what they have to do
nothing new here

lolled at this though

i disagree, although from a technological standpoint not a pragmatic/financial standpoint.

coal as a means to create electricity can be largely eliminated with solar/win/nuclear from a technological standpoint. and gas cars can be eliminated by electricity. the issue is societal norms and infrastructure. creating charging stations, reducing speed limits (means increasing travel time generally), etc is an issue. but it's not technologically held back, its society and the pricepoint.

technology that isnt practical is not a viable alternative. take electric cars as an example:

the range still isnt enough for a simple vacation trip, charging when on the road/away from home is still a huge issue. just think about the beginning of the summer vacations, every car on the streets is an E-car, and they all have to take a break to recharge their batteries at some roadhouse - where are the hundred or thousands of necessary charging stations supposed to be?

another issue is that electric cars still cannot be made with a good climate balance - you still need over 2/3rds of an average car's lifespan just to make up for the pollution created during the e-car's production.

oh, and if we were to switch over the majority of the world's individual transportation to E-cars, this would require more coltan and other rare earths than available on the planet.

In my opinion, cars with a hydrogen fuel cell engine are the more promising technology. the hydrogen can be created in climate-friendly fashion via solar power, and then shipped to the customers like oil.