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Challenges in Solving Water Scarcity:
By Steve Beer Whether for bathing, washing clothes, cooking or drinking; fresh water running through our spigots is often thought of, if at all, as an expectation rather than an essential natural resource or valuable commodity. Only in rare circumstances, like a water main break, does the unavailability of fresh water enter our... »
The Value of Human Beings
To defend the rights of individuals is to guarantee that they have a decent level of treatment as human beings. To violate these rights is to consider those individuals as less than humans. Human beings who live in severe poverty have rights, and they do not deserve to suffer. At least this is what... »
American Exceptionalism
A conversation I was having the other day took a familiar turn when I brought up the topic of World Poverty and Human Rights. The person with whom I was conversing, after hearing my brief description of the topics of the course, responded by saying, “Whenever somebody complains to me about something wrong with... »