Monday, April 04, 2005
Community:
Celebrate Life
Michael Blanding gives us "The Culture of Life Top Ten"--ten ways to value life and improve its quality.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21660/
I would add to this list an 11th way to celebrate life--by making a concerted effort to end world hunger. As a recent article in Time Magazine states, 20,000 people die every day of the completely curable disease of poverty. Jeffrey Sachs, a distinguished economist, has a forthcoming book entitled The End of Poverty. Sachs is "a man who has guided countries from Bolivia to Poland through bad financial times, advised the Pope on Third World debt relief and helped launch the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria. As head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, he has tried to promote the idea that developing countries can protect the environment while improving the lives of their citizens." Sachs argues that "'More than 8 million people around the world die each year because they are too poor to stay alive.'" He argues passionately that these deaths would be entirely avoidable if the developed countries of the world banded together to stop them." You can see an excerpt from his book in Time, March 14, 2005 v165 i11 p6.
Do you have other ideas about celebrating life?
Michael Blanding gives us "The Culture of Life Top Ten"--ten ways to value life and improve its quality.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21660/
I would add to this list an 11th way to celebrate life--by making a concerted effort to end world hunger. As a recent article in Time Magazine states, 20,000 people die every day of the completely curable disease of poverty. Jeffrey Sachs, a distinguished economist, has a forthcoming book entitled The End of Poverty. Sachs is "a man who has guided countries from Bolivia to Poland through bad financial times, advised the Pope on Third World debt relief and helped launch the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria. As head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, he has tried to promote the idea that developing countries can protect the environment while improving the lives of their citizens." Sachs argues that "'More than 8 million people around the world die each year because they are too poor to stay alive.'" He argues passionately that these deaths would be entirely avoidable if the developed countries of the world banded together to stop them." You can see an excerpt from his book in Time, March 14, 2005 v165 i11 p6.
Do you have other ideas about celebrating life?
