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...right land spaces and playing goalie - won't work anymore, as climate change keeps moving the target. There are no perfect answers, but what we know is that conservationists will have to work even harder, trying to minimize non climate-related threats to land and species even as the human population grows by billions. All are agreed that the conservation movement of the future will need to be as inter-connected as the Earth's climate itself, because in a crowded, warmer world there will be no islands. Regardless of what we do, the changes will be coming fast...
...With that, Bogert decided the time had come to “get out of the stands and join a team”—Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based organization that researches and reports on human rights abuses. Today, she serves as HRW’s associate director, using her media experience to help the organization publicize reports on human rights violations...
...conference in Dublin that brought together 110 nations to sign a treaty to ban cluster munitions, a weapon that explodes in the air and disperses a number of “bomblettes” over a wide area. She said the treaty had given her hope for progress on human rights in the coming century. But she said human rights activists are not as blindly optimistic as some people believe...
...like, ‘Wow, we finally got something up here,’” Zimmerman said. “We meaning the human race...
...also wrote for popular science magazines such as Natural History and Discover and began working on topics in human history that were more accessible to the general public...