{"id":8274,"date":"2015-06-08T22:34:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T03:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=8274"},"modified":"2015-06-08T22:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T03:35:35","slug":"glass-half-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/06\/08\/glass-half-full\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass half full&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two\u00a0news bits from the\u00a0past\u00a0week or so:<\/p>\n<p>(1) The UN has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2015\/06\/01\/411265021\/there-are-200-million-fewer-hungry-people-than-25-years-ago\">announced<\/a> that the proportion of people who are chronically undernourished in the world has fallen by nearly half &#8212; from 23.3% to 12.9% &#8212; over the last 25 years. Only a handful of countries &#8212; Haiti, North Korea, Zambia, Namibia, and the Central African Republic &#8212; remain in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/hunger\/en\/\">high hunger<\/a>\u00a0category, which means that over 35% of their populations are chronically hungry.<\/p>\n<p>(2) The Canadian government-appointed Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chaired by Justice Murray Sinclair (who is Ojibway), has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2015\/6\/3\/cultural_genocide_landmark_report_decries_canadas\">concluded its six-year report<\/a>\u00a0by naming Canada&#8217;s many decades-long &#8220;residential school&#8221; system for indigenous youth a form of &#8220;cultural genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The latter may not\u00a0sound like good news, but for those who already knew that it was that, official\u00a0recognition is a significant victory.<\/p>\n<p>Make of those what you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two\u00a0news bits from the\u00a0past\u00a0week or so: (1) The UN has announced that the proportion of people who are chronically undernourished in the world has fallen by nearly half &#8212; from 23.3% to 12.9% &#8212; over the last 25 years. 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