Out of the six billion-or-so people on the planet, two out of three probably aren’t in much of a position to do anything about it right now. They’re either too busy trying to get their next meal together, or scratching a living off a few dollars or less a day. We’re talking climate change, and … Continue reading Climate change: It’s getting personal
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2006: The people’s year?
If it wasn’t enough that Muhammad Yunus recently won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the poor, Time magazine now makes ‘us’ (that means ‘you’, according to the front cover) all ‘People of the Year’. According to Time: “The ‘Great Man’ theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, … Continue reading 2006: The people’s year?