What he saw during his five-year journey around the globe forced him to question the biblical account of creation and, with that, his own faith.
While parts of the neighborhood are still largely inhabited by Puerto Rican residents, the area has also become a mecca for moneyed young people all across the globe, forcing rents to skyrocket.
More than 200,000 children applied for asylum in European Union countries in the first nine months of 2015, adding to the 30 million children across the globe forced from their homes by 2014 due to war, violence and persecution.
Whatever its explanation, this curious passage illustrates the danger of a president becoming the unwitting puppet of his ghosts, as I believe George W Bush did in 2005 with his neoconservative, Project for the New American Century, Weekly Standard-style inaugural and its - mercifully empty - promise to bring about democracy around the globe by force of American arms.
Desertification of parts of the globe would force agriculture on to untouched areas of the planet, while populations would have to adapt to rising sea levels, extreme weather and increasing levels of agricultural pests and diseases, according to a collection of papers published by the Royal Society in 2010.
That will prevent the familiar momentum-killing sight of officiating crews bent over tiny sideline replay monitors while fans around the globe are forced to wait, as if they have time for that.
But beginning in the 1980s, the Chinese government invested huge sums in penicillin fermenters, "disrupting prices around the globe and forcing most Western producers from the market," said Enrico Polastro, a Belgian drug industry consultant who is an expert in antibiotics.
Sir Clive Thompson, who became a corporate hero in Britain by taking a small company in prosaic businesses and building it into a giant with operations around the globe, was forced out of the company yesterday.
You live in a century where the speed with which jobs and industries move across the globe is forcing America to compete like never before.
Tens of thousands of child soldiers across the globe are forced to commit atrocities or are used as cooks, porters and for sexual purposes.
Nobody could say they hadn't been warned about Mr. Gervais, who has hosted the ceremony since 2010 and created such a ruckus with his harsh opening monologue last year that the organization that gives out the Globes was forced to apologize and say he would never be invited back.
