desertification while the world goes on losing the area of one soccer field per second, and no one does anything about it. The ozone layer, the placenta of the earth, is ruptured; the air we breathe is toxic; the oceans are polluted; the animal species are depleted; the fabric of life is rent and sundered for the poor, exotic and abundant for the rich, absent and out of reach for women, who make up two-thirds of the 850 million illiterates on the globe. 9'
