
Being There: How Individuals Can Change the World
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Sometimes you need to see tragedy up front, with your own eyes to realize our traditional institutions aren’t always the best way to solve a crisis. It is the moment, as an individual, you realize you can wield tremendous impact in the world around you. That happened to me a few months ago on the Island of Lesbos, the Greek Island that has become a landing for many of the millions of Syrian refugees who are now Europe’s largest exodus of people since the Second World War. We were driving along a rocky beach when...
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