The World Spends $40 Billion A Year

So Kim Kardashian Is Getting A Divorce, 72 Days After A Wedding That Is Variously Reported To Have Cost $10 Million Or More. Just To Put That In Perspective, That Sum Could Have Built 200 Schools In Poor Countries Around The World For Kids Who Desperately Want An Education. Then Kardashian Could Have Helped Transform The World, Not Just Entertain It. And The Schools Would Have Lasted Incomparably Longer Than Her Marriage.

Rising Seas Create A Higher Baseline For Future Storm Surges. The New York City Panel On Climate Change Has Projected That Coastal Waters May Rise By Two Feet By 2050 And Four Feet By The End Of The Century.

One Thing The Humanitarian World Doesn't Do Well Is Marketing. As A Journalist, I Get Pitched Every Day By Companies That Have New Products. Meanwhile, You Have Issues Like Clean Water, Literacy For Girls, Female Empowerment. People Flinch At The Idea Of Marketing These Because Marketing Sounds Like Something Only Companies Do.

We, As Americans, Have Won The Lottery Of Life And The Distinction Between Us And People Living In Kalighat Is Not That We Are Smarter, Not That We're Harder Working, Not That We're More Virtuous - It's That We're Luckier.

The World Spends $40 Billion A Year On Pet Food.