A friend recently asked me to write what means to be human. Below is my response. — We could be so much more. How can we claim to be ‘human’ while billions suffer? Sure, there have been massive technological advances in the past 100 years, but also untold suffering. During the few thousand years human civilization has
Quick update from Rio+20 on the state of negotiations, particularly the issue of fossil fuel subsidies. Lots at stake! Should be a wild few days as we close out the talks.
Rio is a beast of a process. Not only is every issue imaginable covered, but they have had only 6 months to come up with a meaningful outcome. Negotiations began this past December and have slowly put a draft outcome document together. With the huge number of issues on the table and so much at