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Here’s a little Thursday meme, spotted over at Dina’s.

3x Thursday: From your point of view, name 3 things that are wrong with this world and how you might go about fixing them.

From my point of view, eh? It might be more interesting to ask, from the point of view a Chechen separatist huddled over a smouldering fire in the Caucasus Mountains, name 3 things that are wrong with the world…

But the meme asks for my point of view, so here it is. Three things that are wrong with the world:

1. There is a marked lack of personal teleportation devices allowing instantaneous travel to wherever you wish on Earth. Such things would be really useful. You could set your device to a location, say, Machu Picchu. Watch the patterns of blinking lights for a few moments. Appear in a puff of smoke at your destination, have a poke around the ruins, yet still be home in time for tea. It’s about time these so-called scientists pulled their fingers out. In terms of fixing this, I can only think of writing to my MP and asking him to raise the issue in Parliament. Perhaps I’ll do that.
2. Big mean (if rather cute) Grey Squirrels are trampling all over the territory of our native Red Squirrels, driving them to the brink of extinction. That’s not very nice. As a first step to fix this, I think we need to get talks going with the political representatives of the Grey Squirrels. See if we can’t get some sort of peace process going.
3. There’s nothing worth watching on TV tonight. I quite fancied sitting down in front of the TV this evening, but no, it’s all a load of rubbish. To fix this I’m going to take a cunning, lateral approach. I shall read a book instead.

Bonus question: Can one person make a difference (good or bad)? Why/why not?
Yes, clearly. Look at Adolf Hitler. Starts out as a failed Austrian painter with a silly moustache. Ends up massacring swathes of peoples and starting a catastrophic global conflict that cost millions of lives. We bankrupted our Empire fighting him - so it brought about an end to the end of the age of empires, which had all sorts of consequences for just about everybody on the planet. It lead to the founding of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The grotesque evils he unleashed upon the world had profound and lasting consequences in all sorts of areas. Definitely not a good example to follow, but definitive proof that one man can change the world.