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The Good Country Index

The Good Country Index

Posted on Wednesday, 13 December, 2017Wednesday, 13 December, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

The Good Country Index.

Problems like climate change, pandemics, migration, human trafficking, terrorism and economic chaos are multiplying because of globalisation. These problems are too big and connected to any one country to fix them. We need to co-operate and collaborate much more closely if we’re going to make the world work. The Good Country Index, created in 2014, tries to look beyond conventional economic and social indicators and instead rates countries on measures such as their contributions to global culture, health, security and the environment. The Netherlands was ranked number one while Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan were at the bottom. Britain slipped behind Switzerland, Ireland, Germany and Finland but was still close to the top of the 163 countries in the index. The USA was ranked 25^th. Simon Anholt, an international policy adviser who created the index, said: “A good country is one that successfully contributes to the good of humanity. Of course, it must serve the interests of its own people, but never at the expense of other populations or our shared resources: this is the new law of human survival.” The Good Country isn’t an organisation, an NGO, a charity or a company. It’s an idea: an idea that needs to spread. Some of the tools to help the idea spread have already been launched on this site: the Good Country Index and the Global Vote.

Read Articles From The Good Country Website Here:

https://goodcountry.org/

Go Directly To The Good Country Index Here:

https://goodcountry.org/index/results

NGC 6188 and NGC 6164.
Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Lorenzi (Glittering Lights). Fantastic shapes lurk in clouds of glowing hydrogen gas in NGC 6188. The emission nebula is found near the edge of a large molecular cloud, unseen at visible wavelengths, in the southern constellation Ara, about 4,000 light-years away. Massive, young stars of the embedded Ara OB1 association were formed in that region only a few million years ago, sculpting the dark shapes and powering the nebular glow with stellar winds and intense ultraviolet radiation. The recent star formation itself was likely triggered by winds and supernova explosions, from previous generations of massive stars, that swept up and compressed the molecular gas. Joining NGC 6188 is rare emission nebula NGC 6164, also created by one of the region's massive O-type stars. Similar in appearance to many planetary nebulae, NGC 6164's symmetric gaseous shroud and faint halo surround its bright central star at the upper right. The field of view spans 70 light years at the estimated distance of NGC 6188.

The Kachin people are a confederation of ethnic groups who inhabit the Kachin Hills in northern Burma's Kachin State and neighbouring Yunnan Province, China, and Arunachal Pradesh, India. About one million Kachin peoples live in the region. The term Kachin people is often used interchangeably with the main subset, called the Jingpo people in China. The Jingpho language common to many of the Kachin has a variety of dialects and is written with a Latin-based script created in the late nineteenth century.

The flag of Mongolia is a vertical tricolour with two reds at insides and a blue in the middle, with the Soyombo symbol defacing the left red stripe. The blue stripe is described as the eternal blue sky and the red stripes symbolise thriving forever. The Soyombo symbol is a geometric abstraction that represents fire, sun, moon, earth, water, and a round shape as dualist aspect. The current flag was adopted on February 12, 1992, after the transition of Mongolia to a liberal democracy.

The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Marbles, are a collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor Phidias and his assistants in c. 447 to 438 BC; originally part of the temple of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens. From 1801 to 1812, agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon, and transported them to Britain. The half not removed is now displayed in the Acropolis Museum. In Britain, the acquisition of the collection was not supported by some, and the Earl's actions was likened to vandalism. Following a public debate in Parliament and its subsequent exoneration of Elgin, he sold the Marbles to the British government in 1816. They were then passed to the British Museum, where they are now on display in the purpose-built Duveen Gallery.

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