Fatemeh_Hadi

"Currently, the vast majority of agricultural land, more than 75%, is used to raise livestock and this is very inefficient. There are solutions. One, is considering what we eat. If we shift away from eating meat and dairy and move towards a plant-based diet, then the sun's energy goes directly into growing our food. And because that's so much more efficient, we could still produce enough to feed us, but do so using a quarter of the land. This could free up an area the size of the United States, China, the European Union and Australia combined. Space, that could then be given back to nature. And human innovations may be able to do even more for wildlife. High-tech farms now grow plans vertically yielding up to 350 times the food grown in the same area. This is one of many solutions we already have, and others are surely on the horizon. To find ways to protect all life on Earth means reimagining how we live on this planet in the future. Human ingenuity, our extraordinary ability to find solutions, gives me hope that we can. It will be the major challenge for this generation and the next." ~ Sir David Attenborough.

What I'm about to say might sound a bit odd.

Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8. I'd always wondered what is going on in the UK. I mean it has been and still is bewildering for me how constitutional monarchy has survived into the 21st century. To be clear, I have never dismissed it simply as a mistake. I wanted to understand.

I see UK as a nation that, time and over, has sought truth and spearheaded many changes that have enlightened our world. When I think about all the great thinkers of the UK I cannot do anything except from having respect. For example, they abolished slavery at a time when it took other nations decades to follow or they helped bringing about the scientific revolution. And I'm not denying or worse endorsing all the wrong that the English imperialism has done to the world. Most of us, one way or another, are descendants of atrocities of the history and we all need to understand and atone for what has been done.

I have not read much about how the constitutional monarchy is being defended among intellectuals. But I have heard that there is a wisdom in guarding it and that it is beneficial to have, in addition to legislative, judicial and executive, a "symbolic" body of government for checking and balancing.

Queen Elizabeth was a traditional, cautious and wise person who did that just right. She basically intimidated 15 prime ministers, believe it or not, from Churchill to Liz Truss.

I don't know how well this series is following the actual events but I think it's quite worth watching.