In fact, I'm seeing that this discussion that we're talking about - the international discussion on planetary characteristics - will have wonderful opportunities for the public to, you know, watch and to learn about what we know about our own solar system, what we know about planetary bodies within the solar system.
This looks like a re-run of the discussion leading up to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, in which development groups angrily rejected any intellectual framing in which population growth in developing countries was identified as the core global problem.
In Brussels there has been a discussion of re-structuring, yet not in public.
With Nicaragua , the discussion is about re-opening the embassies in Teheran and Managua as well as signing a number of agreements on matters related to energy, technology, and commerce.
Hoping to re-start the fiduciary push, Rostad wants to redirect the discussion and get more pro-investor parties involved.
Other topics of discussion in London will include encouraging international financial institutions to re-engage with Somalia and building greater trust and security in cyberspace.
"For us it's a venue, which we don't have ourselves, to reach out to a wider public--a thinking public--to have a discussion about issues about which we're concerned, " she says.
We need a discussion on this at the national level, where priorities need to be re-set to recognize the antequated state of our own infrastructure.
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Given the serendipity behind so much innovation, it may seem like folly to predict who will change the world--but we're doing it anyway, if for no other reason than to spark creative discussion.
But fortunately scientists are not so restricted and so there's a group of us that are looking at setting up an independent process, more of a grassroots discussion, and collecting people's thoughts, giving them an opportunity - whether you're in the United States, Europe or Asia - to, you know, put in comments and see where that leads us.
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