Monday, October 31, 2022

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #99

 

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #99, OCTOBER 31, 2022

Population Growth: 8 billion in November
The Limits of Growth
Mark Hertsgaard.  Biden’s Climate Bill.
Dick.  The Importance of Time.

Jack St George. Trillion Trees


Over-Population
Population Connection | Join a Discussion with our Communications Team!   1-28-22

Engage 1-28-22

 

 

 

Hi James R.,

The global population is racing towards 8 billion—a milestone we’re due to reach next month.  Since the UN released its World Population Prospects over the summer, our Communications staff have been hard at work reporting on the latest projections….We invite you to join a discussion with them to learn more about key takeaways from the UN’s latest population projections, which included the identification of November 15, 2022, as the date that our global population will reach 8 billion.

Their presentation, A Demographic Milestone: Reporting on the 8 Billion Mark will take place NEXT Wednesday, November 2nd, at 1pm ET/10am PT.

You can register for the discussion here!  Please reach out to us at engage@popconnect.org 

Kind Regards--  Natalie and Stephanie, Population Connection Membership Relations

 

Limits to Growth
Don’t forget population growth as a cause of virus, climate, and war crises.  VIRUS: Increasing Human population is driving animals off their land and into contact with humans.  --Dick

The Editors (October 6, 2022). The Limits of Growth.”  Monthly Review.  October 2022 (Volume 74, Number 5).

buy this issue  This year is the fiftieth anniversary of The Limits of Growth, one of the most influential, and also controversial, environmental studies ever written. No other environmental work of the 1970s offered such a direct challenge to the underlying assumptions of capitalist neoclassical growth economics, or was responded to so vehemently by establishment thinkers. | more…

 

Biden’s Climate Bill
Mark Hertsgaard.  “A Big Deal.”  The Nation (9.5-12.2022). 
Biden’s climate bill, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, “is the biggest positive step the government has ever taken on climate change.”  [Let’s not forget, though, that Bernie’s original bill’s proposed expenditure was three-times more.]   Most important, it hopes to make clean energy so cheap it will squeeze fossil fuels out of the market.  But Republican “climate wrecking” continues and might block those hopes.  In response, before the next election, “reporters covering them, Democrats [and Independents] running against them, and constituents deciding whether to vote for them” should be asking GOP candidates “over and over” “why anyone who wants a livable climate…would want a Republican Congress.”  [Hertsgaard is a distinguished climatologist, author of the still excellent Hot (2011).  --D]

In contrast read: Notes from the Editors, Monthly Review (November 2022): The inadequate IRA “is best regarded as a chronic symptom of, rather than a partial solution to, the present planetary crisis” (64).

 

IMPORTANCE OF TIME.

The actor spokesman for the Viking travel company’s ads on PBS’ Masterpiece Mysteries  declares: “There’s only one thing we don’t have enough of, and that’s time.”  So we should choose our time wisely.  Travel for education and broadening ourselves is one of the wisest uses of our time.  The catch?   Alas, we don’t have time.

     The protagonist of  Dalton Trumbo’s novel about WWI, Johnny Got His Gun, has been grotesquely, almost totally dismembered by a bomb, but is being kept alive in a hospital.  He thinks: “No matter how far you are separated from other people if you have an idea of time why then you are in the same world with them you are part of them but if you lose time the others go on ahead of you and you are left alone hanging in air lost to everything forever.”

     The situation for us today is reversed.   Not uniquely mutilated soldiers, but our leaders and their followers have lost time, in this instance not ordinary time but now its urgency, all who will not apprehend how little time is left to us even to slow the full onslaught of the calamity of climate’s derangement.  They have lost time by holding insistently to the past, living as though we were still in the 1950s or 70s.  Driving big cars, running our air conditioners, warring and traveling.  Instead of the wisdom of countering planetary catastrophe with commensurate cooperation, we pretend there’s time to prolong business as usual, a choice that could leave us all lost to everything forever.   Dick

 

TRILLION TREES?

Zack St. George.   “The Trouble with Trees.  Can Planting a Trillion New Trees Save the World?”  New York Times Magazine (July 17, 2022). Actually, the “trillion” is aspirational; much that is claimed must be taken on faith. We don’t know “where things really stand” in the planting, sustaining, and verification of new trees, for the “movement” is highly fragmented.  What has been actually planted and being planted—seeds and seedlings included, when both are risky?  A trillion would be impossible under the present chaotic diversification, and even if we could it wouldn’t be sufficient to save us.  Advocates have “drastically overestimated the climate-mending effects of planting trees.”  Tree-planting is “just one solution among the many that are needed…. for climate mitigation.”  [The author does not speculate on what would be sufficient to save us, or what a centrally controlled and funded crash program under the UN, like a combined Manhattan Project-Apollo Mission-Marshall Plan, might accomplish.  --Dick]

 

 

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #97

 

97 WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #97, OCTOBER 26, 2022.

NUCLEAR WAR

Gerald Sloan.  “Assisted Suicide.”
Join NAPF for the Next Nuclear Dangers Zoom Discussion
Dick.  From Holocene to Anthropocene: the Military Bridge.

 

ASSISTED SUICIDE

By Gerald H. Sloan

 

Superpowers are playing chicken

 

with nuclear weapons

 

while we try to teach our children

 

how to be better persons.

 

 

Where's the contradiction here

 

when words like "shark attack"

 

inspire more fear

 

than "nuclear winter?"

 

 

No words in any language

can span the yawning

 

chasm, no system link

 

such epic doublethink.

 

 

How to explain to the next

 

generation this abrogation

 

on so vast a scale, no calculus

 

by which our overseers do not fail?

 

Join Us for the Next Nuclear Dangers Zoom Discussion

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation wagingpeace@napf.org via email.actionnetwork.org 

10-25-22

 

 

 

 

Nuclear Dangers: An Informal Zoom Discussion With

John Burroughs, Jacqueline Cabasso, and Andrew Lichterman

Thursday, October 27, 2022

11:00 am PT    2:00 pm ET    8:00 pm CET

 

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We are also pleased to invite you to

"HUMANITY'S FUTURE"

An online Webinar

Thursday, October 27, 2022

5:00 am PT    8:00 am ET    8:00 pm MYT

 

This Webinar is based on the on-going Campaign/Call “To All Who Care about Humanity’s and the Planet’s Future”. This Call seeks to revive and reframe the global security conversation, especially when we now appear to be on the brink of catastrophe, with escalation of violence and tension gripping the contemporary geopolitical realities.  "Humanity's Future" will explore the present geo-political realities, why the Call came about, and what is the way forward.  The full text of the Call can be found HERE.  All who share our concern and our yearning for a sustainable peace are encouraged to sign and share this message. 

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War v. Environment.

Title:  The Military Bridge from Holocene to Anthropocene.  The Militarism Bridge from Conventional to Nuclear War.

       What are your favorite ironies today?   Let me suggest two more.  One:  The fortress at the center of Baghdad is called the “Green Zone.”  Two: In 2008, while the Burj Dubai tower was being built (twice the height of the Empire State Building), the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London was saying Farewell to the Holocene, Hello Anthropocene!

       The Holocene epoch of stable climate that allowed our civilization has ended.   Because of (causes) the extraordinary human buildup of population, consumption in affluent countries, capitalism, economic growth, and (consequences) CO2/greenhouse gases, warming, weather instability, deforestation, acidification of the oceans, and mass destruction of animals and plants, the Anthropocene epoch has begun.  Humans have forced evolution itself into a new, rapidly developing trajectory.

      Perhaps the single greatest institutional contributor to warming, the largest single source of pollution in the world, is US militarism; in particular, the military in its most ferocious mode, the US military at war, now ceaseless.     The military produces enough greenhouse gases to place the entire globe in danger of extinction. 

     The scale of environmental damage over the last half century is unprecedented. Falling water tables, shrinking forest cover, declining species diversity all presage ecosystems in distress. These trends are now widely acknowledged as emanating from forces of humanity's own making; ironically however, war, that most destructive of human behaviors, is commonly bypassed.

       The disregard that all wars engender for all living things, especially for ostensible enemies, is so common as to be unremarked, and the Pentagon keeps no record of numbers of enemy combatants or civilians killed.  The private Information Clearing House, as of January 2009, counted Iraq War civilian deaths at 1,297,997 since the invasion in 2003.  I have found no record of the cows and chicken, dogs and cats, birds and snakes, crickets or butterflies killed during those or any other years or wars.

    If humans who were seeking to avoid death were so slaughtered, how enormous must have been the decimation of other species from the shooting, firing, dropping, exploding, and incinerating.  The “Shock and Awe” invasion of Iraq began at 10:15 the evening of March 19, 2003, when some 1,700 bombers and fighter planes flew some 1,400 sorties and fired 504 cruise missiles directly into Baghdad.  In the first two days 800 cruise missiles were fired, one every four minutes, day and night.  Each missile weighed about 3,000 pounds, adding up to a total of 1,200 tons, or 2,400,000 pounds of explosives. 

     When the US goes to war against a foreign nation it is a war not only against people, but against the Earth, the soil and animals and plants, in the most far-reaching, annihilating ways.  The earth can no longer absorb the punishment of war of the ferocity that the greatest superpower in history is capable of inflicting. 

      Yet the US will not only not let go its will to dominate the world; rather it is tightening its grip.  In its latest National Defense Strategy, the Pentagon declared a new Cold War with both China and Russia and promised to wage the war around the globe.  That is, it is not a defense strategy, but an aggressive attempt to justify a massively expensive military buildup for global control, the effects of which on the environment and climate are beyond imagination.  

     What we need is an International Rescue Strategy against the consequences of the onrushing climate catastrophe that includes not only coastal city adaptations to rising seas but relief for global economic inequality within and among nations, and millions of displaced refugees.   Instead, the Pentagon offers us the old, ruinous, ostensible threat of Cold War adversaries.  As Pentagon Secretary Jim Mattis expressed it, “Great Power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of U.S. national security.” To the Pentagon, China and Russia threaten the world, not warming, hurricanes, drought, extinctions, or rising oceans.

Resistance

      You and I can make two effective responses right now.  We can stop saying Department of Defense.  Put an X or a slash over Defense.   It’s the War Department, just as it was before President Truman and the Pentagon cunningly changed its name.  And we can support anti-war, anti-imperial organizations; such as Veterans for Peace, Peace Action, AFSC/FCNL, ICAN, NAPF, OMNI. Want to expand your antiwar footprint?  Join an antiwar organization.

      And then we can join the United Nations in estimating the environmental and climatic destruction of US wars before and afterward, toward pushing Congress to force the Pentagon to declare the true costs of its wars.  This is a feasible and even familiar practice.   For example, a 2010 study found that 3,000 companies were responsible for $ 2.15 trillion worth of environmental damage in 2008.  Let’s get the damage data and let’s name the perps.

       And then we can laugh out loud at all the green-washing--many as absurd as Baghdad’s “green zone”-- distracting us from calamitous planetary war and warming.

References, KPSQ talk #18 on War and Environment Sat. Feb. 24, 2018. (800 words, I cut this for the radio editorial to around 650 to be under 7 minutes).    
Barry Sanders, The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism.  2009.  Over a decade old but still cutting-edge, so little attention to the destruction has been paid.
Mike Davis, “Foreword,” to The Green Zone, “ Living on the Ice Shelf: Humanity’s Melt Down” (2008).
Putting a price on global environmental damage .“   Trucost.  https://www.trucost.com/trucost-news/putting-price-global-environmental-damage/  Oct 5, 2010.
 Robert Borosage.  “Trump’s Forever Wars.”  The Nation (Feb. 26, 2018).
Alice and Lincoln Day, Producers.  Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War.  The effects of war and war preparations on the environment, while profound, have been largely overlooked.  In 2011 OMNI brought Alice and Lincoln here to show their excellent film.

 

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #83

 

83 WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #83, July 20, 2022

Hedges.  “The Pimps of War.”

AFSC: Cut the Pentagon Budget.

US Conference of Mayors’ Peace Resolution.

UPJ: Resources for Understanding the War.


Chris Hedges
.  The Pimps of War.”   The Chris Hedges Report.  Apr 10, 2022. 

The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a war with Russia.
[I could not copy the graphic “The Pimps of War” by Mr. Fish.  Click on url.]

The same cabal of war mongering pundits, foreign policy specialists and government officials, year after year, debacle after debacle, smugly dodge responsibility for the military fiascos they orchestrate. They are protean, shifting adroitly with the political winds, moving from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons to liberal interventionists. Pseudo intellectuals, they exude a cloying Ivy League snobbery as they sell perpetual fear, perpetual war, and a racist worldview, where the lesser breeds of the earth only understand violence. 

They are pimps of war, puppets of the Pentagon, a state within a state, and the defense contractors who lavishly fund their think tanks – Project for the New American Century, American Enterprise Institute, Foreign Policy Initiative, Institute for the Study of War, Atlantic Council and Brookings Institution. Like some mutant strain of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, they cannot be vanquished. It does not matter how wrong they are, how absurd their theories, how many times they lie or denigrate other cultures and societies as uncivilized or how many murderous military interventions go bad. They are immovable props, the parasitic mandarins of power that are vomited up in the dying days of any empire, including ours, leaping from one self-defeating catastrophe to the next.

I spent  20 years as a foreign correspondent reporting on the suffering, misery, and murderous rampages these shills for war engineered and funded.   MORE https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-pimps-of-war



SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2022

 

AFSC Weekend Reading

Tell Congress: Invest in peace—not war and militarism: This week, the House of Representatives took up the National Defense Authorization Act. Members voted on Pentagon spending, nuclear weapons, and other critical issues that affect the lives, safety, and health of people around the globe. We need to keep up the pressure on Congress to move away from militarism and invest in peace. If you haven’t already, urge your representative to cut the Pentagon budget!


U.S. Conference of Mayors Adopts Bold New Mayors for Peace Resolution
At the close of its 90th Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada, on June 6, the final plenary of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) unanimously adopted a sweeping new resolution, titled Forging a Path to Peace and Common Security.” The resolution calls for a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine, global elimination of nuclear weapons, and the redirection of military and nuclear weapons spending to support safe and resilient cities and meet human needs. This is the seventeenth consecutive year the USCM has adopted resolutions submitted by U.S. members of Mayors for Peace. The USCM is the official nonpartisan association of America’s big cities. Resolutions adopted at its annual meetings become official policy that guides the organization’s advocacy efforts for the coming year. READ MORE.

 

Organizations against War via United for Peace and Justice (June 2022)

Ukraine War Resources
The Ukraine war goes on, and so does the debate over how those working for peace should respond. United for Peace & Justice continues to update our Ukraine resource page with materials ranging from organizational statements by peace groups to commentary from the Ukraine independent Left to statements by the Russian government. Some links worth visiting include a new site featuring commentary from Russia, Ukraine, and their neighbors, including interviews with Russian student anti-war activists, and the Permanent Assembly Against the War, bringing together antiwar activists from across Europe.

 

Monday, October 24, 2022

OMNI UNITED NATIONS DAY OCTOBER 24, 2022

 

OMNI

CELEBRATES UNITED NATIONS DAY OCTOBER 24, 2022

For a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology compiled by Dick Bennett

www.omnicenter.org/donate/

 

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Contents UN Day 2022

Frederick Glaysher’s “Dag Hammarskjöld”

FCNL Urges Contact Rep.

UN General Assembly 77
United Nations Foundation

Fulbright on Nationalism

 

“Dag Hammarskjöld” by Frederick Glaysher

Dag Hammarskjöld

No more of these sad tones

of fear and the scourge of war,

of chaos and anarchy,

of the passions of humankind.

 

Though the first movements wander

among the dark and threatening

conflicts of Beethoven's Ninth,

the "Ode to Joy" shall come.

 

All the millions will unite

as brothers, surrendered

to the way of peace,

to a higher synthesis of joy.

Copyright © 1999 Frederick Glaysher
[Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was Hammarskjöld’s favorite music]

 

Tell Rep. Womack: Honor UN Day by Supporting UN Peacekeeping

Peacebuilding Updates, FCNL 

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Friends Committee on National Legislation

 

 

Dear James,

Happy United Nations Day! Today, we are celebrating the 77th anniversary of the United Nations Charter entering into force—and calling on Congress to support the U.N.’s essential work

U.N. peacekeeping missions have played a critical role in building global cooperation for peace by working to prevent violence and protect civilians in some of the world’s most volatile conflict zones.  

But the United States is falling short in its support of the U.N.  

Fortunately, Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA-53), has introduced the U.S. Commitment to Peacekeeping Act (H.R. 4420), which would allow the United States to pay its dues on time and in full. This would strengthen U.S. credibility and increase goodwill – two elements that are crucial to the United States achieving its diplomatic goals, including ending the ongoing war in Ukraine. 

Please write Rep. Womack today and urge them to support U.N. peacekeeping! 

Ursala Knudsen-Latta

Sincerely,

Ursala Knudsen-Latta

Legislative Manager
Peacebuilding

 

 

 

 

UNGA77 Uncovered

 

On Sept. 6, President Biden nominated Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Senator James Risch (R-ID) to serve as the two U.S. Congressional Representatives to the 77th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

 

Both nominations were confirmed by a voice vote on September 15. While the posts are largely ceremonial, the two Senators will serve as the official representatives of the U.S. Congress at the meeting of world leaders, which kicked off in earnest last Monday at UN Headquarters in New York. The duo plans to hold a closed door meeting with Secretary-General Guterres to discuss a number of headline issues, including the War in Ukraine and growing food insecurity, as well as engage in bilateral meetings with UN Permanent Representatives and various visiting Heads of State.

 

Senator Leahy, the president pro tempore of the Senate and longest-serving member in the chamber, announced in November 2021 that he wouldn’t seek reelection, concluding his final term in the Senate after nearly five decades of public service. Sen. Leahy has been a longstanding leader on U.S. foreign policy matters, including U.S. support for the United Nations. He has served for more than 30 years 

 

as Chair or Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Foreign Operations and State Department Subcommittee, where he worked with Democratic and Republican administrations on funding, oversight and management of U.S. foreign policy, including U.S. contributions to the UN, its peacekeeping operations, food security, global health, and environmental programs.

 

Senator Risch is the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As the lead Republican on the committee, Sen. Risch has largely focused his efforts on countering China and has introduced and advanced several legislative packages, including the first comprehensive legislative strategy to compete with China across a number of areas. Sen. Risch’s other key foreign policy priorities 

 

include confronting Russian malign influence, strengthening NATO, and improving global health security.

 

Words from Micah Spangler, Director of Advocacy and Humanitarian Affairs at the Better World Campaign.

 

 

InterGenerational Model United Nations

 

 

 

To celebrate and recognize UN Day, we're hosting the 2022 UN Day InterGenerational Model UN where participants of all ages and walks of life can step into the shoes of UN Ambassadors and debate a range of issues on the UN agenda.

 

This all-day program is designed as a teaching and learning conference intended for both novices and delegates with prior Model UN experience. Attendees will be able to debate and collaborate a range of topics and hear from inspiring speakers like Ambassador Chris Lu, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform.

 

View the IGMUN webpage below for more details and registration!

 

REGISTER

 

 

 The Future of the United Nations

 

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On Thursday, September 8, UNA-USA members gathered virtually and in-person at the Fairmont Hotel—where the UN Charter was negotiated and signed 77 years ago—to hear remarks from U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. 

 

The address topic, The Future of the United Nations, was incredibly timely given rising instability internationally and global challenges with no borders. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield's speech was live-streamed and followed by a one-on-one conversation with UN Foundation Senior Vice President Peter Yeo.

 

 

 News: UN Favorability Rises Among U.S. Voters

 

"During a year when the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine has been felt throughout the world, American support for the United Nations is on the rise. The UN’s favorability rose to 62% in 2022, up from 56% in 2021."

 

UNA-USA is beyond excited to see the increase in the UN's favorability and are committed to ensuring continued support for the UN's lifesaving work around in the world through global crises. See the results of the bipartisan polling here!

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS, PROGRAMS, & MORE

 

 

The United Nations is the largest global body where nations come together and create better ways to solve problems, share our planet, and build the future. On October 24th, we will celebrate UN Day and let the public and Congress know that we need these “better ways” now more than ever. 

 

On Monday, we will call our Members of Congress using a phone script and advocate for the work of the UN. Everyone is also encouraged to post on social media, celebrating UN day. We will compile everyone’s posts and, on Tuesday, release a social media highlight reel. We hope you all will submit a letter before UN Day, and on Wednesday, we will post the submissions that made it to publication!

 

Looking for other ways to celebrate? Check out what your local UNA-USA chapter is doing here on our UN Day webpage.

 

 

TAKE ACTION TODAY

 

 

Support the Global Goals

 

The United States government played a critical role in shaping the Global Goals and generating international support, because global challenges require global solutions. If we want to create a more peaceful, prosperous and just world by 2030, then we need to commit to global collaboration achieved by the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

Urge your Members of Congress to uphold our country's commitment to achieving the SDGs by supporting H.Res.30, Supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

 

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JOIN THE MOVEMENT TO SUPPORT THE UN

 

UNA Today aims to inform Americans interested in global affairs and the UN about important updates, events, opportunities, and campaigns. As the largest group of UN advocates in the U.S., UNA-USA members are the leaders fighting to protect and promote the vital work of the United Nations.

 

UNA-USA’s membership finds strength in numbers. Join UNA-USA today to gain exclusive access to learning, leadership and networking opportunities, and our closed online community to connect and network with fellow members across the country! (Those under 26 join free!)

 

 

 

 

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“Diplomacy’s Biggest Moment: What You Missed.”

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For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, heads of state from nearly 193 UN Member States gathered in person last week for the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). 

 

An overwhelming majority of world leaders called for peace, with resounding condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They also urged action to roll back the disastrous impact the conflict is having on global food and energy security. 

 

 

Education, gender equality, global health, and climate action were also trending — even as the General Debate itself reflected the pervasiveness of systemic problems. Just 11% of the speakers behind the podium were women. 

 

And for yet another year, leaders of climate-vulnerable countries pleaded for more accountability, action, and ambition as extreme weather events were pummeling their regions.

 

Keep reading to catch up on what you missed at UNGA.

 

 

 

FROM OUR EXPERTS...

 

Key moments and takeaways from UNGA 77

From the halls of the UN’s headquarters to events on the sidelines in New York City and beyond, here are the government leaders and changemakers who were trending during this year’s UNGA.

Read the recap >>

 

Embracing the Sustainable Development Goals across the USA
The U.S. can deliver on the promise of the SDGs at home and abroad. Tony Pipa of the Brookings Institution joined UN Foundation’s President and CEO Elizabeth Cousens to unpack how the U.S. can strengthen its commitment to the Goals.

Read their op-ed in Foreign Policy >>

 

Future-proofing the world’s agriculture

Against the backdrop of conflict in Ukraine and climate crises in Somalia, Pakistan and elsewhere, the fragility of the world’s food systems emerged as a major topic of discussion at this year’s UNGA. Elizabeth and Bram Govaerts, Director-General of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, write about one possible solution.

Read their op-ed in Market Watch >> 

 

The biggest global health fundraiser in history
This year’s Global Fund Replenishment Conference raised a record-breaking $14.25 billion to support countries battling HIV, TB, and malaria. UN Foundation’s Tara Bracken — a former biomedical researcher who studied malaria in pregnant women and children — breaks down what this means for the planet’s most vulnerable.

Learn more >>
 

 

 

BONUS SECTION: WATCH & LISTEN

 

Experts talk UNGA, global cooperation 
We teamed up with the Financial Times to deliver a preview of UNGA. UN officials and leaders from the private sector shared ideas and insights on the world’s crises and the future of multilateralism.

Watch now >> 

 

The Future of Learning: Unlocked
Our Next Generation Fellows joined some of the planet’s biggest youth-led and youth-focused organizations, alongside global leaders and influencers, to discuss reimagining education at a pivotal moment.

Watch now >>

 

#USAforSDGs
At “American Leadership in Advancing the SDGs,” local leaders, businesses, and community organizers across the U.S. shared how they are embracing the Goals.

Watch now >>

 

In the Guest Chair
Want to catch up on what went down during High-Level week? A special-edition podcast series with Mark Goldberg, the host of Global Dispatches, brought thought leaders to the mic to unpack the biggest moments and topics.

Listen here >> 

 

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Fulbright on Nationalism

“A new idea has sprung up out of the ashes of two World Wars:  the idea that the sovereign nation can no longer serve as the ultimate unit of personal loyalty and responsibility.  We have begun to perceive that our happiness and prosperity, and perhaps even our survival, may depend on whether we allow the West to succumb once again to divisive and destructive nationalism. . . .”  J. William Fulbright.  Old Myths and New Realities (108).  

 

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