I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing more competitive economies.
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming proliferation of plastics urban sprawl and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties top-down regulations and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law democracy security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
More than ever before there is a global understanding that long-term social economic and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families communities and countries.
Without international participation jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few if any environmental protections harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.