...agricultural regions, there is no legal architecture in place to ensure the sustainable use of existing environmental resources. In dry Yemen, for example, aquifer use exceeds consumption by a factor of five, while the World Bank cites that the aquifer nearest the capital, Sana’a, servicing two million citizens is dangerously close to running dry this year. Advances in pumping and irrigation technology, as well as increases in their accessibilit...
...our deep desires for security, stability, resilience, and durability—all the things that we realize our society is lacking, especially in the wake of the financial crisis. I think many people are intuitively worried that our banks aren’t the only things that are “too big to fail.” CPR: Can you elaborate more on how the “too big to fail” concept would relate to the environmental crisis? BM: I’d say our agricultural system is a pretty clear one in...
...is not only speaks volumes about the sheer size of the Chinese population and the potential for future economic growth, but also portends a radical change in the way that Chinese expatriates interact with and affect the wider world. Food for thought: Just imagine how this massive demographic outpouring will affect the world. And this great leap in Asian interaction with the wider world will not stop with China. India’s population will be larger t...
...f land grabs without any attention or help from their own governments. When looking for solutions to the problems associated with land grab deals, it helps to first understand the origins of the issue. In the 1980s, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) supported restructuring programs that introduced African land to the global market. Investors who had previously considered purchasing African property too complicated now recon...
...e of such a humane and moral attitude among Zionists is a powerful statement about the motivations of its proponents. But the fact that some Zionists thought this way, and that some still do, makes today’s reality in the West Bank saddening and disappointing. Last week, Israelis and Palestinians and people who care for human dignity were sharply reminded of the reason for their disappointment. Edmund Levy and a few right-wing Israeli jurists foun...
...ush administration to demote India —the country with one of the highest numbers of slaves in the world—to a “Tier Three” in the hierarchy of anti-slavery countries and to vote against India’s development requests to the World Bank. Condoleezza Rice refused the proposal, but the initial pressure was an important starting point. The US State Department estimates that there are over 2 million sex slaves in India, but the Indian government has not re...
June 21, 2021. Sunny blue skies, 40 degrees Fahrenheit onshore, 35 degrees in the water, and celebration is in the air as thousands of tourists and foreigners of Inuit descent join the locals in the streets of Greenland’s capital city, Nuuk. The whole world’s elite has flown in during the past few days to pay tribute to the 18,000 inhabitants of the northern capital. Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is here, accompanied by Crown Prince...
...ace of globalization is born of twin optimistic impulses (both explicitly present in Columbia’s report). On the presumptuous and self-congratulatory end, American universities ostensibly believe in their ability to change the world by enlightening the benighted children of dictatorial and underdeveloped nations. On the domestic sales call, universities would have Americans believe that the rise in internationals adds some intangible benefit to th...
...quixotic and nationalistic external outlook, the new direction of Indian foreign policy is encouraging and refreshing. Nevertheless, the lingering threat of a flawed and archaic non-alignment policy threatens to squander the world of opportunity that India is presented with today. Conceived amidst the euphoria and idealism of India’s independence era, the doctrine of non-alignment has consistently been cited as the cornerstone of India’s outward...
Early this January, international man of mystery Julian Assange held an extravagant press conference in Geneva. With cameras flanking him on all sides, the WikiLeaks founder was handed two discs of secret banking data from a disgruntled former employee of Julius Baer, a prominent Swiss financial institution. After the release of hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables, Mr. Assange and his source were now planning to expose the details of int...
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