A global view

Another thing we realised in the Global Issues class is how much power we as Westerners have. We don't feel this power; we just feel like ordinary, inconsequential, powerless folk. But we can change the course of our government, we can support or boycott products, we can decide what to do with our lives. This is vast, heady stuff to poor people all over the world.

I guess it makes me think that all the stuff about fair trade or the Millennium Development Goals or whatever shouldn't just be the business and passion of a niche group, but is already the concern of us all whether we acknowledge it or not. So we already have the power - now we just have to use the power for good.