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Sat 01 Jan 2010After outrage must come positive change for children
CELEBRATING THE new year is a testament to the human capacity for hope. A new millennium is even more of a turning point, but the last decade knocked a great deal of human optimism out of us, writes BREDA O’BRIEN
We saw the impact of global terrorism, natural disasters and human greed. Over it all was the dawning realisation that we were endangering even the possibility of survival on our own planet, due to runaway consumption of fossil fuels and rapacious plundering of finite resources.
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