The Planet at 7 Billion: Lessons from Somalia

The original version of this article, by Laurie Mazur, appeared on the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Leaf blog.Listless, emaciated children wait for water to arrive by donkey. Their mothers rest nearby, too exhausted to speak. Tiny graves are chiseled out of bone-dry earth to hold the famine’s youngest victims. That is what Mary Robinson, then-president of … Continue reading The Planet at 7 Billion: Lessons from Somalia