The lungs of Indians, Congolese and Bangladeshis are in worse condition than those of a person who has smoked for years. The UN wants to create a global fund to combat an issue that has become the world’s biggest public health problem
From the article, they are mentioning the Northern countries of India and Bangladesh and the equatorial country of the Congo (DRC)
I expected a bit more Argentina, South Africa and Australia if we’re gonna be talking about the south.
But I guess they mean the third world countries, but that headline has been repeated too much already. And someone harked back to the cold war period and discovered global south used to be a synonym for the third world. (Because the third world had a lower average latitude than the first and second world).
What’s the global south? I’m looking at a map and it seems that the global north is the epicenter of poor air quality.
From the article, they are mentioning the Northern countries of India and Bangladesh and the equatorial country of the Congo (DRC)
I expected a bit more Argentina, South Africa and Australia if we’re gonna be talking about the south.
But I guess they mean the third world countries, but that headline has been repeated too much already. And someone harked back to the cold war period and discovered global south used to be a synonym for the third world. (Because the third world had a lower average latitude than the first and second world).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South
It’s a socio-economic term rather than a directional term, it’s similar to “developing country” and is meant to be an alternative to “third world.”
And it’s absolutely fucking stupid.