Jessica Williams - 50 Facts That Should Change the World
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In this new edition of her bestseller, Jessica Williams tests the temperature of our world and diagnoses a malaise with some shocking symptoms. Get the facts but also the human side of the story on the world?s hunger, poverty, material and emotional deprivation; its human rights abuses and unimaginable wealth; the unstoppable rise of consumerism, mental illness, the drugs trade, corruption, gun culture, the abuse of our environment and more. The prognosis might look bleak, yet there is hope, Williams argues, and its down to us to act now to change things.
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I have been dipping in and out of Jessica Williams very fine book, imbibing it in parts and largely on the run. The facts are incontrovertible, but the questions remain of why is it so, who is responsible and what can we do? I thought that the strength of Jessica Williams essays is that they are calm, never shrill, and therefore invite the reader into the discussion rather than leaving us with merely a sense of overwhelming difficulty. A fearless and compelling work. You need to know whats in this book. Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane
A research handbook for the No Logo generation Guardian
A must-read BBC Liverpool
Lucidly written, excellently researched, and with detailed referencing, the world wont look so rosy when youve put it down Ecologist
A book to surprise, enrage and inform, it is a powerful antidote to apathy which offers information on how to make a difference. A gem of a book. Agenda
A shocking, eye-opening look at what is really going on in the world today. The cold statistics are so severe they speak for themselves, yet each one is elaborated upon with several pages explaining why the stark reality of the statistic has come to be, and what can be done about it these figures would transform life as we know it, if only more people would become aware and take action. Midwest Book Review (US)
Provides proof of why we cannot be complacent about the world as it is today. Should become the bible of political activists everywhere. Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman
An admirably well-intentioned book that will provoke countless debates Good Book Guide
A remarkable snapshot of the state of global civilisation today, and just how fragile it really might be The Booklover (Hong Kong)
Memorable, hard-hitting and to the point MSN Entertainment: Books
Should foster action Church Times
Provides much needed and very enraging information Publishing News
To my aunt, Rosemary Williams, a tireless activist for animal rights whose memory inspired me as I wrote this book
50 facts that should change the world
Jessica Williams
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Originally published in 2004 by Icon Books Ltd.
This updated edition published in the UK in 2007
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I had always believed that writing a book would be a solitary process, but I believed wrong. Numerous people have helped, inspired and contributed, and I am incredibly grateful to all of them.
Extra-special thanks go to Neil Durkin of Amnesty International and Steve Crawshaw of Human Rights Watch; to Jacqui Hunt of Equality Now!; to Gladwell Otieno at Transparency International Kenya; and to Barry Hugill of Liberty, Neera Sharma at Barnardos and Simon Davies at Privacy Inter national. Thanks also to the people who took time to talk to me, to those who contributed or inspired the arguments herein, and to all the groups, large and small, working to make the world a better and fairer place.
There are two people without whom this book would not have happened, and I mean that without the slightest exaggeration: Professor Ziauddin Sardar, whose generous recommendation and encouragement really did set this all in motion, and Andrew Furlow at Icon Books, who dealt with an apprehensive and doubt-stricken author with true aplomb.
To my colleagues at HardTalk Carey, Tim, Sola, Ali, Bridget, Tanya, Sian, Tama, Nick and Dougal thank you for your inspiration and enthusiasm. Thanks also to my family and friends for their kindness, unstinting support and understanding in the face of a suddenly silent telephone. My best friend Callum managed to cheer me on from 12,000 miles away an impressive feat by anyones standards. And then, there is John who has been my first sub, my sounding board and a wonderful and patient partner in crime. He will be truly embarrassed to be in any list like this, which just makes me more determined to thank him.
Jessica Williams is a journalist and television producer for the BBC, where she has researched and produced interviews with such disparate figures as the political philosopher Noam Chomsky, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Sir David Attenborough, Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble, and the late American academic Edward Said.
Setting out to change the world is a pretty difficult task. At first, its hard to see how a fact, a simple piece of information, can do that. But I firmly believe that each one of the 50 facts in this book is capable of changing the way we think and when it comes to changing the world, thats the most important step we can take.
Each fact in this book tells us something important we need to know about modern life in the modern world. Each is accompanied by a short essay which aims to give a bit of context, looking at the story behind the statistic: what the scope of the problem is, how we got here, and what we can do now. At the end of the book theres a full list of where the 50 facts are sourced from; youll also find a glossary which will explain any unfamiliar terms, and a guide to how you can get involved.
This is the third edition of 50 Facts That Should Change the World the first came out in 2004, the second (which had some minor updates) in 2005. This edition has had a fairly major overhaul updating some of the facts, completely replacing others. And theres one major reason for this: the world is changing.
Some of the original 50 facts are just simply not true any more. The first edition contained a fact about how 70 per cent of the worlds population had never heard a dial tone. Thats no longer true, thanks almost entirely to mobile phones. It made me so happy to draw a big line through that fact, thinking that maybe with this mushrooming of technology we might be making some serious progress in eroding the digital divide, the huge gaps that used to exist between the information-saturated rich world and the countries where you might face a year-long wait to have a telephone connected. Theres quite a long way to go yet, but the momentum is there.
Another fact thats missing from this edition is the one about the US spending about the same amount of money on pornography as it does on foreign aid. America is now spending far more than it did on overseas development assistance: some $27 billion, according to the OECDs figures, helpfully broken down by the website globalpolicy.org. The porn industry hasnt grown at the same rate if anything, its deflated slightly. Its heartening that the US is giving so much more development aid, although globalpolicy.org notes that nearly $7 billion of that figure is going to Iraq.
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