What Matters : The World’s Preeminent Photojournalists And Thinkers Depict Essential Issues Of Our Time
What Matters : The World’s Preeminent Photojournalists And Thinkers Depict Essential Issues Of Our Time (2008. ANF 909.831 WHA) is a disturbing book.
Eighteen stories from foremost photojournalists cover issues confronting the world, from climate change to global jihad, AIDS, genocide, oil addiction and the inequitable distribution of wealth. The photographs are often shocking. The accompanying text written by writers and experts in their fields will make you cry, will make you angry, and probably will make you feel ineffectual.
No issue is as simple as it appears on the surface and this book presents no sweeping panaceas either. What it does is make you stop and think about factors you may not have reckoned with before, or consequences of actions that you might not have anticipated.
Thankfully, the book does provide some hope. The end of malaria could be in sight. The HIV epidemic seems to be abating in parts of Africa. The book ends with a listing chapter by chapter titled “What You Can Do : 193 ways to learn more and get involved”.
Yes, we are all part of the solution.
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Taken with permission from Gloria Novak’s “Good Reads at the Library”
