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c/europe · by Kissaki@feddit.org · 276d

The Good Country Index

https://index.goodcountry.org/

The Good Country Index measures what countries contribute to the world outside their own borders, and what they take away: it’s their balance-sheet towards humanity and the planet

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EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d (1 reply)

How the fuck is it possible for Ukraine to be so low on the contribution to international peace and stability while Ruzzia and Israel are so comparatively high? Like how is being invaded worse than being an invader...

What positive contributions to peace and syability have the 2 terrorist states had in the past year?

Honestly this is just one of the several perplexing rankings.

Kissaki@feddit.org · 1 pts · 247d

It's not part of the measurement.

The FAQ about what good means or how it is measured has some indications regarding this.

I agree that Ukraine does invaluable good for all of us right now. This Index is simply measuring something different. I assume it would be hard to quantify, measure, and integrate.

FAQ Don’t you know about all the helpful things my country does around the world?

[…] or if it builds institutions that support international peace or wellbeing, those are definitely Good Country behaviours, but it's impossible for us to assign them a numerical value, and therefore they cannot be included in the Index.

In conclusion: the Good Country Index neither claims nor attempts to account for everything that countries contribute to or detract from the wellbeing of humanity and the planet. That would be impossible. All it can do is shine a torch in the corner of a very large, very dark field: but that's surely better than leaving it totally dark.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 276d

For me, his reliance on CCS does more damage to his climate rep than scrapping the carbon tax. There are viable, perhaps even better alternatives to the consumer carbon tax. CCS on the other hand ..

birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 276d

Strongly doubting Hungary's spot there.