Hence the endless stream of fundraising emails I receive from Democratic politicians on the dangers of Ted Cruz or John Boehner, or the Republican war on women, and the paucity of emails on what Democrats will do to fix the broken tax system, address climate change, alleviate economic inequality, deal with immigration, or God forbid, reign in the power of the big banks and other crony capitalists.
One of Britain's leading environmental entrepreneurs, Jeremy Leggett, is setting up a "club" of companies that will reserve five per cent of their profits for causes that fight climate change and alleviate global poverty.
Biofuel production from lignocellulosic biomass helps to mitigate climate change and alleviate our reliance on fossil fuels.
A global assessment by the UN special rapporteur on the right to food concludes: "… agroecology, if sufficiently supported, can double food production in entire regions within 10 years while mitigating climate change and alleviating rural poverty".
"Agroecology can double food production in entire regions within ten years, while mitigating climate change and alleviating rural poverty," stated Olivier de Schutter, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food upon presentation of his March 2011 report to the Human Rights Council.
As Muslims continue in the path of learning, as encouraged by the Prophet, I hope that a more nuanced attitude to this issue will emerge at a popular level, and then we can focus on more important discussions like that of climate change or alleviating poverty.
We will seek to aim funding, such as that which we may be able to attract from foreign donors and investors, to better manage Burma's exposure to climate change and to alleviate hunger.
"But I will have a hard time telling my children that I didn't do much to alleviate climate change because of aesthetics".
Six weeks from now, in Cancun, Mexico, the world's nations will gather under the auspices of the United Nations (the UNFCCC) to again discuss how to alleviate climate change.
The company is already reviewing its choice of what produce it wishes to see grown in what regions and assessing how better water management can alleviate climate change pressures.
According to this view, security – the bottom-line responsibility of government – seems imperilled, particularly in the US, where fears grow that internationally agreed measures to alleviate climate change may well be overturned, and loose words from a verbally incontinent incoming president could spark who-knows-what consequences.
