What Makes People Care.
“This current crisis in Somalia is on a different order of magnitude than the typical calamity, if there is such a thing. Tens of thousands of people have already died, and as many as 750,000 could soon starve to death, the United Nations says, the equivalent of the entire populations of Miami and Pittsburgh.” -Jeffrey Gettleman The first person account from Jeffrey Gettleman in today’s New York Times hit me hard this morning as I was sitting on the bus. These numbers are shocking- but totally incomprehensible. How can we conjure more »
