So I recently went to a really interesting museum about Coast Salish tribes and there I found out about a "conflict" between the Elwha Dam, which I like to call the Salmon-blocking Dam and the Klallam. The Klallam, a Coast Salish tribe, used to fish salmon for thousands of years. They basically lived on fishing. All was going well for so long but then there came a Canadian businessman in 1910 who built a dam there ruining everything! And since fish can not go through tons of concrete, the Klallam had a big problem. The dam blocked the fish from returning to the upper river which lead to the number of fish going from about 400,000 to just a mere 4000. Now there are a few things you can do if a dam is blocking your food and the quantity had reduced by almost a hundred times, you could protest peacefully or you can blow up the dam. Now thankfully the Klallam didn not blow up the dam and choose the logical option to protest which did take its time to get results, it took almos
Road Safety - This topic has come up in numerous discussions all over the world but the one thing people get wrong is that they think it all depends on the infrastructure - The zebra crossings, the traffic lights, etc. but in fact it isn't because the one hard fact about road safety is that no matter how good the infrastructure is, it is the drivers which make a road safe to travel on. Even if there is a traffic light, it won't matter if the driver doesn't stop when its red, even if there is a zebra crossing, it won't matter if the driver doesn't stop when someone is crossing the road. Now I don't mean to say that the infrastructure doesn't play any role, what I am saying is that the driver plays a major role. Now a good example of this would be to compare crossing roads for a pedestrian in India and in Germany: In India on a typical busy street you can hardly find any crossings and even if you do, the cars won't stop for you, which makes crossing the