Kenya
Name: Nancy Chebet
Email: nancychebet610@gmail.com
Country: Kenya
Date of Birth: February 6, 1980
Education: College
Occupation: Cosmetologist
Please describe your vision of a world that works for everyone.
Changing the world means making it better. It’s allowing everyone to achieve their rights. “I imagine a society where we are not judged, a society where every individual has the right to be themselves without being afraid of what people say, and without fear of being insulted.
What do you see as the most pressing problems facing the world today?
The last decade has been marked by significant progress in various fields such as science, medicine, and technology but, at the same time, the number of issues in the world today has steadily grown. In 2020 and 2021, undoubtedly some of the most uncertain and difficult years of the last decade, the biggest problems in the world were the COVID-19 pandemic and poverty. However, the years that followed continued to be somewhat complex and certainly no less easy.
Over the last decade, humanity has lived through a series of negative and dangerous events, with some of the most uncertain and difficult years probably being 2020, 2021, and 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic, constantly increasing poverty and wars erupting in different regions of the world, followed by migration issues, and all of these seasoned with the widening gap between the rich and the poor.
In 2022 – 2025, the war in Ukraine, the Israel; Hamas conflict, and worsening humanitarian crises in many other countries along with the energy crisis and hyperinflation caused multiple economic shocks and stagnation across the continents.
One of the major problems on our planet is linked to global temperatures that are continually rising. By 2100, studies show that there is a 50% likelihood of facing global warming that is higher than 3.5 degrees Celsius and a 10% probability of witnessing warming higher than 4.7 degrees Celsius relative to temperatures. This would result in more severe shifts in weather patterns, food and resource shortages, and the more rapid spread of diseases.
How do you feel these problems could best be solved?
All countries need to move their economies away from fossil fuels as soon as possible. Invest in renewable energy. Changing our main energy sources to clean and renewable energy is the best way to stop using fossil fuels. These include technologies like solar, wind, wave, tidal and geothermal power. Most people know it exists, but not how it’s weaved into every fabric of our lives especially online.
Most people don’t view the world objectively or factually, but through glasses tinted by ideology and through interpretations by world-views constructed from hundreds of pieces of disinformation and misinformation.
Right now, it’s a rampant global forest fire and most people seem to be quite content with it.
I’ve heard this scenario described as a pendulum which swings back and forth between science denial + conspiracy theories, and reliance on science and objectivity and that right now, we’re at the very extreme end of science denial plus conspiracy theories. Fortunately, there does seem to be an early indicator that things might be swinging in the other direction.
For the people to whom it’s a personality trait or part of their identity to believe in fringe conspiracy theories, it’s no longer unique. It’s no longer just the crazy uncle. It’s completely normal, to the point of being really boring. That makes it unappealing and uninteresting because their entire thing is to swim against the stream and “not be mainstream sheep”. Listening to science, data and facts while dry and boring are slowly becoming the new “interesting thing to be.”
Soon, they can “swim against the stream” within their conspiracy echo chambers, and that opens a new way for them to express unique identity and that’s ultimately what many of them are chasing. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking on my part, but I’ve heard science communicators share the sentiment. Maybe it’s wishful thinking for them as well, though. But we have a long, long, long way to go even if the pendulum is swinging back towards common sense, logic and truth.
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My interest in cosmetology and hair began to develop when I was around ten years old. I have always been in love with hair and makeup, and when I was ten I was finally old enough my stepmother brought me to the shop for the first time, and from that day forward at ten years old, I knew that this was my dream. Although I knew I loved hair and makeup, I knew that I had grown up wanting to be a teacher. Being a teacher is what my grandmother did, what seemed like the perfect occupation to pursue, something to go to college for, and the more stable and reliable option. Yet the more I envisioned myself as a teacher and tried to let go of my perfect dream, the more I realized teaching was not what I wanted. While working under my stepmother in the shop sweeping, cleaning, washing towels, coloring bowls, shampooing customers here and there, taking care of guest, answering the phones, and watching in adoration, I gained more knowledge than I can express, a little experience, and a future goal for my life.
As I enter college in the next year I plan to pursue a diploma in business management as well. First and foremost, I am working with cosmetology in order to involve myself in something I am completely passionate about and know without a doubt, I will wake up every morning excited to do. I also plan to pursue business management for the purpose of one day, fulfilling another dream of mine: being my own boss. The two of these, successfully together will ultimately accomplish the goal of giving myself a platform on which I have more than one option, and room to move forward and up in my career. The final reason I decided cosmetology and business management was the route to go for me, was the recent popularity of makeup and beauty. I feel like in the next ten years they will only become more popular and profitable with YouTube and Instagram as well as more products coming out and people becoming more.
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