However, the audience needs to be brought inside the corporate board rooms and high up government offices where lasting decisions are made about the rain forest's future and the plight of the manatee.
We must also resolve questions concerning Jerusalem, the plight and future of Palestinian refugees and a final peace between Israel and Lebanon and Israel and a Syria that supports peace and fights terror.
Rather than depicting the story of LGBTQ liberation as a linear trajectory of upward progress, Pulse will remind future researchers that the plight of LGBTQ people in the 21st century has been a story of progress and pushback, of triumph and tragedy.
A decade ago, as the global debate on Afghanistan's future raged, it was the plight of Afghan women that captured the world's attention.
Polemical and ostensibly unsophisticated, Walker's poetry enjoys a large audience and is appreciated for its heartfelt, moving evocation of the dispossession of the Aboriginal people, their plight, and their future.
It is not hard to imagine what they would be discussing over their smoky caravan tea, since only one thing binds this unlikely fraternity: the strange plight and uncertain future of the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory.
Twenty-six miles to the west, another bleak scenario has just been played out, one which demonstrates the devastating impact of policies intended to serve as a deterrent to future refugees while ignoring the plight of those already here.
Financially impoverished, he became determined that future fighters would not suffer his plight and campaigned passionately for a pension plan for boxers.
But future shifts do not alter the plight of the Milosevic prosecutors, who wrote a sweeping historical indictment and ended up, not with a verdict and a sentence, but mostly with food for historians.
In his open letter, Simmons said he is "deeply concerned about the future of urban America, specifically the plight of people of color".
