Sharose Islam

The whole idea behind being the cool girl is to strip yourself down from everything that makes you a woman; whether that be your own femininity or your preference to be friends with other women. A "cool" girl is hot without trying, chill without being a pushover, and has a dark sense of humour that "other girls" just don't understand. Because obviously, the coexistence of all these traits is unimaginable.

With COVID-19 causing the biggest paradigm shift in the world order, more and more people are beginning to realize how we, humans, had taken the Earth and all its blessings for granted. Even before this pandemic had begun, environmental activists like 15-year-old Greta Thunberg constantly made noise about the importance of adopting a circular economic model in an attempt to save the Earth for generations to come. In an Environment Committee meeting held in April 2019, Thunberg urged environment Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing systems (MEPs) and leaders to elevate their policies and transform them to prevent making large-scale damages that may later become impossible to undo. Her speech emphasized the importance of an economic system that is backed by a cleaner, greener, and more circular processes. But what exactly is a circular process?

To understand the ideal state of being for the world economy, we first have to take a look at our current state of being which is largely linear.

A cash crop, also known as a profit crop, is an agricultural crop that is primarily grown for the purpose of being sold for profit, and these crops are generally purchased by parties unaffiliated with a farm. These commercial crops are significantly different from subsistence crops, which are food crops that are fed to the producer’s own livestock or grown for the consumption of the producer’s family.

To the short-sighted, the idea of meritocracy sounds perfect. However, that is far from the truth. A truly meritocratic system is a paradox in itself because it states nothing about the determinants of what "merit" really is. What it doesn't take into consideration is that "merit" is subjective. A painter may be meritorious in their art, but because most people cannot grasp the depth of the work, they may not be considered meritorious and thus, may never "succeed".