Global poverty is ours to reject

Ours Is to Reason Why

It is now widely understood how to write formal specifications so as to be able to justify designs (and thus implementations) against such specifications. In many formal approaches, a “posit and prove” approach allows a designer to record an engineering design decision from which a collection of “proof obligations” are generated; their discharge justifies the design step. Modern theorem proving...

The future is ours to create.

Global Poverty and Moral Responsibility

Global poverty is one of the most important challenges encountering human beings. Thousands of people die every day and 18 million people die every year as a result of poverty and its problems. The main question in this regard is whether the rich have a moral responsibility for poverty or not. Taking advantage of descriptive-analytical methods, this article examines the views of Peter Singer, J...

Ours is a special community.

NOT KNOWING WHERE ELSE TO SEND A HEARTFELT message to the Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiothoracic Surgery community, I thought I would come here, with a personal story. My cousin, “B”, recently contacted me from Australia, seeking my help. He was born with classic d-transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum. My mother used to tell me he was profoundly cyanoti...

Critical Global Health: Responding to Poverty, Inequality and Climate Change; Comment on “Politics, Power, Poverty and Global Health: Systems and Frames”

A recent article by Sol Benatar calls on the global health community to reassess its approach to twin crises of global poverty and climate change. I build on his article by challenging mainstream narratives that claim satisfactory progress in efforts to reduce poverty and improve health for all, and arguing that any eradication of poverty that is consistent with environmental sustainability wil...