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March 02, 2008
The Big Picture
I credit Nick Kristof for being the first to educate me, at least, about the situation in Darfur several years ago. Now he is calling us to look more closely at Southern Sudan and it doesn't look pretty.
Many countries need to take action, but it seems as though China (apart from Sudan itself) has the greatest responsibility. I applaud Steven Spielberg for resigning as the artistic director for the Beijing Olympics over this issue.
I wonder what the world would be like if we no longer depended on oil for energy, but on a variety of sources that come from all different regions (certain kinds of soils, solar power, etc.) It's a nice idea to think that a lot of reasons for warfare would disappear, but we would probably still find some big new issue over which to fight.
| By heiders | 08:53 AM
Comments
the situation in sudan is terrible, I totally agree. I just don't think the olympics should be used to protest this kind of thing. It's the olympics! It's about all of us, not just china!
Posted by: linnea at March 4, 2008 08:27 PM
True, but it's often on the world's biggest stages that one can make the biggest statements. It's more about the message Spielberg is sending than the Olympics themselves.
Posted by: heiders at March 6, 2008 04:44 PM
