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There are indications that the United States are interested in buying Greenland, an autonomous country and the world's largest island, from Denmark.
The current US President, Donald Trump, wants to take his real estate acquisition skills to another level with this move.
According to CNN, Greenland is home to 56,000 people, and the notion of buying an indigenous people and their ancestral lands smacks of colonialism and is deeply problematic. Given how Trump's real estate projects worked out for the islanders of New York City — $360 million in forgiven or uncollected taxes with another $885 million in tax breaks going to luxury apartments, hotels and office buildings — it would be financially savvy for Denmark to steer clear of President Trump's crony capitalism.
Global Warming, Climate Change. When you hear these things, you think scientists and researchers are trying to play with some fancy words?
Herdsmen farmers' clashes have cost several lives in Nigeria this year alone. The casualty, even as big as it seems, is just a tip of the iceberg of other products of the impending climate crises.
Desert is taking over more fertile lands. Antarctica is getting warmer, and ice melting, which only increases the volume of the oceans. This rise in sea level swallows more lands. Resources will get scarce and when the little left isn't managed and shared properly - crises.
I'm not a prophet of doom, but I preach climate change and global warming. Preach as much as you can because we have no other planet, yet.
- Ekene Onuorah
