[Reader-list] Fwd: How to save the world!

[rustam]

Might interest some of you...
Regards,
Rustam Vania


HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD

New Scientist is planning a special edition for the spring that will 
look at how science and technology are helping to solve people's 
most fundamental problems. It will focus on the developing world, 
but not exclusively. It will look at poverty, inequality and 
development, and it will look at unhappiness. It will be less an 
analysis than a search. We don't know the answers. We don't 
know if science is really helping, or if it is part of the problem.

We want to hear the views of people "on the front line". What do 
people living in poverty or desperation want? What do they need? 
What do the people trying to help them, or trying to help them help 
themselves, think they need? Where has science and technology 
helped and where has it hindered?

We're looking for examples and case studies from the field, positive 
and negative. We're looking for ideas, however contrary. We're 
looking for people, however controversial. We want to know how 
you really improve people's lives. Is there a recipe you can apply 
everywhere? Can developing countries leapfrog into prosperity and 
avoid the problems the West went through? Does poverty in a 
European city feel the same as poverty in an Indian village? Can 
money--or for that matter science--make you happy?

Perhaps you know some of the answers. If you're a writer looking 
for a commission or a consultant/researcher/activist with ideas, 
please do get in touch.


Michael Bond
Opinion Editor
New Scientist
tel. 020 7331 2718
michael.bond at rbi.co.uk


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