Similarly, a host of smaller countries wanted a guarantee of at least $100 billion per year from the wealthiest nations to help them modernize in an environmentally responsible way. It was unfair, India insisted, for the West to have had two centuries to despoil the environment as it developed and then, just as the rest of the world was industrializing, demand that everyone else do so without using the cheapest energy source still available: fossil fuels. But that can be true only when we give up.įor all the good that came out of the Paris climate summit earlier this month, one major question remained unanswered: What do fully developed nations owe the ones still catching up? India, the largest developing nation, demanded that advanced economies like the United States grant them more “carbon space” – more leeway to pollute – while they modernize. It’s a public safety issue,” the nonpartisan coalition said.So often, the product of entrenched politics is a loss of hope and agency. Eastern time today.In Nashville, Tennessee, last month, more than 5,000 people linked arms, forming a chain 3 miles long that ended at the statehouse. The special edition was sent to your email at 10:30 a.m.
To this end, the Monitor has put together a collection of stories to show that ways forward are possible and that problems remain entrenched only so long as we turn away or view the other side as the enemy. But it can keep us awake. Falling into the indolence of despair must never be an option. It does not need to tell us what to think.
But here is where journalism can play a vital role. Why are guns seen as different?This past weekend, I felt that profound sense of impotence after the latest in America’s series of mass shootings. Although mass shootings are not unique to the United States, their scope and frequency are. We know deaths would rise if we loosened seat-belt laws or car safety regulations. Yet it is inescapable that mass shootings, while the result of many variables, are inextricably connected to America’s gun laws. This can be accomplished in countless ways that defy partisan lines. With devastating frequency, mass shootings tragically underscore this fact. The Monitor does not exist to advocate for any particular policy, but for the expansion of universal values such as compassion, freedom, responsibility, or honesty, to name a few. So much of American politics today promotes a profound sense of impotence – the inability to move entrenched forces, even a degree.
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