Not exact matches
Okay, but I don't believe
in Christ and think religion is a
way to comfort
humans about their own
mortality.
By this I mean that it is the qualifying of
human life
in such a
way that we know ourselves to be mortal men who have no claim to anything else and who must honestly and bravely face the truth of their
mortality.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan weaves a tale that speaks to
human morality and
mortality in a
way that American cinema, mainstream or independent, doesn't like to think about anymore.
Which is really too bad because we have an urgent problem
in America: our maternal
mortality rate is among THE HIGHEST
in the industrialized world (depending on the index you look at), our infant
mortality rates are unacceptable, the inequalities
in the
way women of color and poor women are treated is literally a
human right crisis, our new moms suffer from postpartum depression mores than so many other countries, and
in many
ways we have taken the joy and awe out of childbirth and infancy.
Twice as much CO2 and a modest 1 degree Celsius warming would benefit the world
in many
ways, extending growing seasons for agriculture, increasing crop yields, and lessening
human mortality, which increases
in cold weather.
Describing the many
ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience deep trauma,
in a list «that would surely make the blood of any decent
human being run cold,» Parker said Indigenous people continued to die more than a decade earlier than their peers, suffer double the burden of ill health and infant
mortality, with unemployment four times higher and median incomes half, and disability for one
in three.