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Benjamin McKeown

The Most Important Thing, and It's Almost a Secret - The New York Times - 0 views

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poverty disparity

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  • The number of extremely poor people (defined as those earning less than $1 or $1.25 a day, depending on who’s counting) rose inexorably until the middle of the 20th century, then roughly stabilized for a few decades. Since the 1990s, the number of poor has plummeted.• In 1990, more than 12 million children died before the age of 5; this toll has since dropped by more than half. • More kids than ever are becoming educated, especially girls. In the 1980s, only half of girls in developing countries completed elementary school; now, 80 percent do.
  • Granted, some 16,000 children still die unnecessarily each day. It’s maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  • The world’s best-kept secret is that we live at a historic inflection point when extreme poverty is retreating. United Nations members have just adopted 17 new Global Goals, of which the centerpiece is the elimination of extreme poverty by 2030.
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  • oung journalists or aid workers starting out today will in their careers see very little of the leprosy, illiteracy, elephantiasis and river blindness that I have seen routinely.
  • “The next two decades can be even better and can become the greatest era of progress for the world’s poor in human history,
  • globally, inequality is diminishing, because of the rise of poor countries.
  • Cynics argue that saving lives is pointless, because the result is overpopulation that leads more to starve. Not true. Part of this wave of progress is a stunning drop in birthrates.
  • Haitian women now average 3.1 children; in 1985, they had six. In Bangladesh, women now average 2.2 children. Indonesians, 2.3. When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.
Benjamin McKeown

U.S. Farmers Urge Changes to Immigration Law Amid Labor Shortage | TIME.com - 0 views

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migration HL response anti-globalization

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  • The Broetjes and an increasing number of farmers across the country say that a complex web of local and state anti-immigration laws account for acute labor shortages. With the harvest season in full bloom, stringent immigration laws have forced waves of undocumented immigrants to flee certain states for more-hospitable areas. In their wake, thousands of acres of crops have been left to rot in the fields, as farmers have struggled to compensate for labor shortages with domestic help.
  • “The enforcement of immigration policy has devastated the skilled-labor source that we’ve depended on for 20 or 30 years,”
Benjamin McKeown

In Peru's Deserts, Melting Glaciers Are a Godsend (Until They're Gone) - The New York T... - 0 views

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climate change consequences peru

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  • has shrunk by 40 percent since 1970 and
  • . It is currently receding by about 30 feet a year, scientists say.
  • The retreat of the icecap has exposed tracts of heavy metals, like lead and cadmium, that were locked under the glaciers for thousands of years, scientists say. They are now leaking into the ground water supply, turning entire streams red, killing livestock and crops, and making the water undrinkable.
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  • pests that now thrive in the warmer air.
  • worm that became the scourge for him and neighboring farmers. It suddenly started devouring their crops in the early 2000s.
  • last year, came the rats.
  • the breaking point for his cotton crops came when red ants ate away the buds.
  • he has decided to plant sugar cane instead and move some of his production to higher altitudes where it is colder.
  • The idea’s supporters promised profits through exports to markets in North America, Asia and Europe, where the fruit seasons were reversed.
  • hey are shipped to China, where they are prized. Credit Tomas Munita for The New York Times
  • All told, more than 100,000 acres of desert were brought into cultivation.
  • With enough water and fertilizer, asparagus could be grown directly in the sand — and at yields per acre far higher than in the United States because Peru has no cold season and more days of sun.
  • A reservoir was created out of a dune. More than 8,000 tons of produce grows here every year.
  • The temperature at the site of the glaciers rose 0.5 to 0.8 degrees Celsius from the 1970s to the early 2000s, causing the glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca to double the pace of their retreat in that period
  • It was the start of a wave of migration from the mountainside to the coast set off by the arrival of the water.
  • 14,000 feet above sea level.
  • “In years to come, we will be fighting over water,” said Mr. Gómez.
  • Meanwhile, planners here continue to push for more irrigation.
  • “Because of this water, our children have been able to go to university,” he said. “But if there is no water from the Santa River, that all changes.”
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