Sublime

There was a balance. It wasn’t because humans lived in balance with nature. Humans died in balance with nature. It was utterly brutal and tragic. Today, humanity is once again reaching a balance. The number of parents is no longer increasing. But this balance is dramatically different from the old balance. The new balance is nice: the typical paren

Le nombre de milliards, de gauche à droite, comme un code PIN. Amériques : 1. Europe : 1. Afrique : 1. Asie : 4. (J’ai arrondi les nombres.) Comme tous les codes PIN, ce code changera. À la fin du siècle, les experts de l’ONU estiment qu’il n’y aura pas de changement en Europe et aux Amériques, mais qu’il y aura 3 milliards de personnes de plus en

UNESCO’s Global Citizenship Education (GCED) initiative, implemented by the Faith in the Commonwealth project, is an important step in this direction.

What we should do is stop dividing countries into two groups. It doesn’t make sense anymore. It doesn’t help us to understand the world in a practical way. It doesn’t help businesses find opportunities, and it doesn’t help aid money to find the poorest people.

How many people in the West would guess that women in Iran today decide to have fewer babies than women in either the United States or Sweden? Do we Westerners love free speech so much that it makes us blind to any progress in a country whose regime does not share our love? It is, at least, clear that a free media is no guarantee that the world’s f

Remember that the media and activists rely on drama to grab your attention. Remember that negative stories are more dramatic than neutral or positive ones. Remember how simple it is to construct a story of crisis from a temporary dip pulled out of its context of a long-term improvement.