Chan Lowe: Haitian relief's silver lining
It says a lot about mankind--and the way we have organized ourselves into self-interested nation-states--that it takes a cataclysm for the world to discover its better nature.
We had that opportunity at Kyoto and Copenhagen, too, but as I've said before, the peril of climate change is too slow-moving and there are too many skeptics for us to drop our tribal barriers and address it effectively.
It's impossible to deny that something horrific has happened in Haiti--it's all over our TVs and the Internet, nonstop. When we witness something that hits us this hard, most of us manage to take the blinders off and think of human welfare in general as something to be nurtured, regardless of ethnicity or culture.
For a brief time, those of us who are grateful that we were spared are able to grow from the tragedy and extend a hand to those who were not. For those who would turn their backs on human suffering...life is a journey, and there is always hope.
CHAN LOWE has been the Sun Sentinel’s first and only editorial cartoonist for the past twenty-six years. Before that, he worked as cartoonist and writer for the Oklahoma City Times and the Shawnee (OK) News-Star.
Comments
Yes a terrible thing happened in Haiti ,but would it have happened if the last 6 BILLION dollars of aid had not been mostly stolen and the drug gangs were not running the cities.As far as global warming the models are shaky at best as proven by the math Doctor in Canada as even NASA had to restate that the warmest year for the planet was in the 1920's so much more scientific work is needed to verify your belief.
Posted by: pallidin | January 19, 2010 9:56 AM