"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it. ~ Mother Theresa"
We have the knowledge, and the skills to make the world equal, safer and more sustainable - yet at the same time, the world remains too unequal, too unsafe, and too unsustainable. Nearly a billion still live in extreme poverty, unable to benefit from the new global connections - whilst those very same connections have made this inequality more visible both to developed and developing worlds.
By 2010, half of the world's poorest will be in countries at risk of, or recovering from conflict. Climate change and environmental degradation is a reality right now for many in the developing world, and if we do not undertake serious and necessary action, we'll risk condemning the world to generations of destruction. Whether facing conflict, the spread of disease or the impact of climate change, there is no longer an 'over here' or 'over there'. We must find shared solutions to shared problems. Can we show the commitment needed to make the change?
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
If the World Bank went 'green' it might ensure that 21st century developement doesn't repeat the fossil-fuel burning history of industrialized development, and if more people in more countries had a say in global institutions, their credibility, and effectiveness could take off - as it is we do not see this with any of the 150 multilateral agencies, and 40 bilateral agencies ....
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We have the knowledge, and the skills to make the world equal, safer and more sustainable - yet at the same time, the world remains too unequal, too unsafe, and too unsustainable. Nearly a billion still live in extreme poverty, unable to benefit from the new global connections - whilst those very same connections have made this inequality more visible both to developed and developing worlds.
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents the danger and the other represents opportunity. ~ John F Kennedy
By 2010, half of the world's poorest will be in countries at risk of, or recovering from conflict. Climate change and environmental degradation is a reality right now for many in the developing world, and if we do not undertake serious and necessary action, we'll risk condemning the world to generations of destruction. Whether facing conflict, the spread of disease or the impact of climate change, there is no longer an 'over here' or 'over there'. We must find shared solutions to shared problems. Can we show the commitment needed to make the change?
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
If the World Bank went 'green' it might ensure that 21st century developement doesn't repeat the fossil-fuel burning history of industrialized development, and if more people in more countries had a say in global institutions, their credibility, and effectiveness could take off - as it is we do not see this with any of the 150 multilateral agencies, and 40 bilateral agencies ....
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