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Want to hear some good news for a change?
Listen to this amazing talk by Dr Rowan Gilles who is the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/bbg_20060625.mp3 (it is about 22MB)
The text transcript will be up there too in a few days. Check http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/ around the middle of the week.
One of the things I loved about this talk is that he refuses to have anything to do with politics. I have a fervent hope that one day politicians will become irrelevant because people simply won't listen to them anymore. This is a good model for that kind of thinking. Dr Gilles is a very smart man with a lot of experience and he speaks frankly of his experiences in many troubled places around the world.
Hard to imagine that a talk which hinges upon disasters can be so uplifting and be such a cause for optimism. It helps me admire my fellow humans again.
Some of us are so incredibly wonderful!!
Listen to this amazing talk by Dr Rowan Gilles who is the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/bbg_20060625.mp3 (it is about 22MB)
The text transcript will be up there too in a few days. Check http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/ around the middle of the week.
One of the things I loved about this talk is that he refuses to have anything to do with politics. I have a fervent hope that one day politicians will become irrelevant because people simply won't listen to them anymore. This is a good model for that kind of thinking. Dr Gilles is a very smart man with a lot of experience and he speaks frankly of his experiences in many troubled places around the world.
Hard to imagine that a talk which hinges upon disasters can be so uplifting and be such a cause for optimism. It helps me admire my fellow humans again.
Some of us are so incredibly wonderful!!