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“The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems.”

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Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future.

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Until the last nuclear weapon is eliminated, more must also be done to reduce the risk of a detonation. Nuclear-armed states should reduce the…

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The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job to try…

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You can't expect humanitarian and development agencies to rebuild Syria. There is not enough money. There is not enough capacity. There are not enough…

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Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the…

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While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.

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Concrete steps are needed to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in military plans, doctrines, and policies.

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“AUSTRALIA, LIKE THE UNITED STATES, experienced a different path to inclusive institutions than the one taken by England. The same revolutions that shook England…

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“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact…

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“Coined by ecologist Eugene Stoermer in the 1980s, but popularized by Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen in 2002, the term Anthropocene refers to the geological…

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Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are…

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Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical…

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“I am a citizen of this country,” I declare, “and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when I put…

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The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view…

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“As with France, an important consequence of the British Industrial Revolution for China and Japan was military vulnerability. China was humbled by British sea…

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“Many 18th- and 19th-century artists rejected, criticized, or ignored the Industrial Revolution. Instead of uplifting man, industry seemed to demoralize and dehumanize him. Men,…

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